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Nigeria: 37 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 37 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-NGA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NGA / NGStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
37
first-level units
811
units at 2 levels
234,131,064
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Nigeria by province, state and territory

37 first-level units and 774 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 37 first-level units of Nigeria
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Nigeria

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
37 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM2
774 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
03Units

All 37 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abia NG-AB 4,997,794 4,150,256 4,818 1,037 2.1% 3,535
Abuja Federal Capital Territory NG-FC 3,371,862 6,083,957 7,653 441 1.4% 0
Adamawa NG-AD 5,424,624 5,341,020 40,108 135 2.3% 0
Akwa Ibom NG-AK 7,518,811 6,398,587 6,899 1,090 3.2% 367,013
Anambra NG-AN 7,707,197 6,794,961 4,837 1,593 3.3% 0
Bauchi NG-BA 7,936,570 7,663,350 49,792 159 3.4% 0
Bayelsa NG-BY 2,721,484 2,758,200 9,432 289 1.2% 595,213
Benue NG-BE 6,835,695 6,540,139 31,012 220 2.9% 0
Borno NG-BO 6,976,438 7,688,797 72,435 96 3% 0
Cross River NG-CR 4,141,938 4,261,601 21,088 196 1.8% 193,392
Delta NG-DE 7,404,806 6,568,247 17,037 435 3.2% 1,790,889
Ebonyi NG-EB 3,869,030 3,585,068 6,514 594 1.7% 0
Edo NG-ED 5,173,385 5,055,361 19,644 263 2.2% 3,744
Ekiti NG-EK 4,194,573 4,219,118 5,807 722 1.8% 0
Enugu NG-EN 5,393,899 4,930,604 7,659 704 2.3% 0
Gombe NG-GO 3,721,575 3,542,364 16,707 223 1.6% 0
Imo NG-IM 6,565,141 6,302,698 5,123 1,282 2.8% 0
Jigawa NG-JI 6,625,439 6,436,595 23,533 282 2.8% 0
Kaduna NG-KD 9,660,868 9,870,283 45,244 214 4.1% 0
Kano NG-KN 15,689,091 15,415,553 20,310 772 6.7% 0
Katsina NG-KT 9,502,262 9,190,393 24,328 391 4.1% 0
Kebbi NG-KE 5,343,517 5,043,439 37,348 143 2.3% 0
Kogi NG-KO 5,626,404 5,401,563 28,992 194 2.4% 0
Kwara NG-KW 3,729,520 3,713,347 33,545 111 1.6% 0
Lagos NG-LA 12,072,652 12,558,167 3,780 3,194 5.2% 5,229,579
Nasarawa NG-NA 2,893,931 3,723,408 26,367 110 1.2% 0
Niger NG-NI 6,702,070 6,783,030 71,242 94 2.9% 0
Ogun NG-OG 7,115,536 11,973,266 16,806 423 3% 243,031
Ondo NG-ON 5,730,013 5,122,061 15,112 379 2.4% 386,624
Osun NG-OS 5,401,112 5,271,743 8,579 630 2.3% 0
Oyo NG-OY 9,423,407 9,728,458 27,824 339 4% 0
Plateau NG-PL 5,043,631 4,831,100 26,135 193 2.2% 0
नद्या NG-RI 10,210,409 9,229,225 10,210 1,000 4.4% 3,423,764
Sokoto NG-SO 6,133,239 5,593,725 31,162 197 2.6% 0
Taraba NG-TA 3,608,874 3,376,894 59,043 61 1.5% 0
Yobe NG-YO 4,230,986 4,501,157 45,927 92 1.8% 0
Zamfara NG-ZA 5,433,281 5,193,559 34,419 158 2.3% 0
04जोखीम

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Nigeria publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05स्रोत

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NGA ADM1, source: GRID3, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NGA ADM2, source: GRID3, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
देश
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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