🇳🇬 Nigeria 37 administrative divisions
37 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 5,335 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- NG · NGA · 566
- Capital
- Abuja
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- NGN, naira
- Calling code
- +234
- Internet domain
- .ng
- Divisions
- 37
- Cities and towns
- 5,335
Divisions
The 37 divisions of Nigeria
37 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abia State | NG-AB | 164 | 3,727,347 |
| Adamawa State | NG-AD | 48 | 4,248,436 |
| Akwa Ibom State | NG-AK | 943 | 5,482,177 |
| Anambra State | NG-AN | 441 | 5,527,809 |
| Bauchi State | NG-BA | 38 | 6,834,314 |
| Bayelsa State | NG-BY | 20 | 2,277,961 |
| Benue State | NG-BE | 162 | 5,741,815 |
| Borno State | NG-BO | 30 | 5,860,183 |
| Cross River State | NG-CR | 60 | 3,866,269 |
| Delta State | NG-DE | 247 | 5,663,362 |
| Ebonyi State | NG-EB | 37 | 3,490,383 |
| Edo State | NG-ED | 88 | 4,235,595 |
| Ekiti State | NG-EK | 29 | 3,270,798 |
| Enugu State | NG-EN | 75 | 4,411,119 |
| Federal Capital Territory | NG-FC | 291 | 3,564,126 |
| Gombe State | NG-GO | 117 | 3,256,962 |
| Imo State | NG-IM | 161 | 5,408,756 |
| Jigawa State | NG-JI | 19 | 6,000,163 |
| Kaduna State | NG-KD | 120 | 8,252,366 |
| Kano State | NG-KN | 101 | 16,076,892 |
| Katsina State | NG-KT | 36 | 7,831,319 |
| Kebbi State | NG-KE | 47 | 4,440,050 |
| Kogi State | NG-KO | 45 | 4,473,490 |
| Kwara State | NG-KW | 746 | 3,192,893 |
| Lagos State | NG-LA | 136 | 11,000,598 |
| Nasarawa State | NG-NA | 27 | 2,523,395 |
| Niger State | NG-NI | 64 | 5,556,247 |
| Ogun State | NG-OG | 83 | 5,217,716 |
| Ondo State | NG-ON | 89 | 4,671,695 |
| Osun State | NG-OS | 58 | 4,705,589 |
| Oyo State | NG-OY | 98 | 7,667,318 |
| Plateau State | NG-PL | 36 | 4,200,442 |
| Rivers State | NG-RI | 311 | 7,000,924 |
| Sokoto State | NG-SO | 112 | 4,998,090 |
| Taraba State | NG-TA | 24 | 3,066,834 |
| Yobe State | NG-YO | 206 | 3,649,600 |
| Zamfara State | NG-ZA | 13 | 5,482,423 |
A further 13 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Nigeria
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/NG.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/NG/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.