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[[Image:Nigeria  sm02.gif|thumb|right|250px|Map of Nigeria]]
[[File:Lagos skyline.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Lagos]], Lagos]]
[[File:Kofar Nasarawa - Kano City Gate.jpg|thumb|249x249px|[[Kano (city)|Kano]], [[Kano State]], second-most populous city by census 2006]]
[[File:Ibadan.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Ibadan]], [[Oyo State]], third-most populous]]
This is a '''list of populated places in [[Nigeria]]'''. Cities in '''bold''' are among the fourteenth-most populous in the country (covered in more detail at [[List of Nigerian cities by population]]):

[[Image:Pitakwa.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Port Harcourt]] City Center, [[Rivers State]], fourth-most populous]]

== Cities ==
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*'''[[Aba, Nigeria|Aba]]'''
*[[Abakaliki]]
*'''[[Abeokuta]]'''
*[[Abonnema]]
*'''[[Abuja]]'''
*[[Ado Ekiti]]
*[[Afikpo]]
*[[Akpawfu]]
*[[Akure]]
*[[Asaba, Nigeria|Asaba]]
*[[Awgu]]
*[[Awka]]
*[[Bauchi (city)|Bauchi]]
*[[Batagarawa]]
*'''[[Benin City]]'''
*[[Bida]]
*[[Birnin Kebbi]]
*[[Buguma]]<ref>The Official Gazette of Rivers State of Nigeria No. 16, published in Port Harcourt on the 25th of August 1983</ref>
*'''[[Calabar]]'''
*[[Damaturu]]
*[[Dutse]]
*[[Ede, Osun|Ede]]
*[[Eket]]
*'''[[Enugu (city)|Enugu]]'''
*[[Gombe, Nigeria|Gombe]]
*[[Gusau]]
*'''[[Ibadan]]'''
*'''[[Ife]]'''
*[[Ikeja]]
*[[Ikirun]]
*[[Ikot-Abasi]]
*[[Ikot Ekpene]]
*'''[[Ilorin]]'''
*[[Iwo, Osun|Iwo]]
*[[Jalingo]]
*[[Jebba]]
*[[Jimeta]]
*'''[[Jos]]'''
*[[Kabba]]
*'''[[Kaduna (city)|Kaduna]]'''
*'''[[Kano (city)|Kano]]'''
*[[Katsina (city)|Katsina]]
*[[Karu Urban Area|Karu]]
*[[Kontagora]]
*[[Kutigi]]
*[[Kumariya]]
*[[Lafia]]
*'''[[Lagos]]'''
*[[Lekki]]
*[[Lokoja]]
*'''[[Maiduguri]]'''
*[[Makurdi]]
*[[Minna]]
*[[Nnewi]]
*[[Nsukka]]
*[[Offa, Kwara|Offa]]
*[[Ogbomoso]]
*'''[[Onitsha]]'''
*[[Okene]]
*[[Ogaminana]]
*[[Omu-Aran]]
*[[Ondo City]]
*[[Oron, Akwa Ibom|Oron]]
*[[Oshogbo]]
*[[Owerri]]
*[[Owo]]
*[[Orlu, Nigeria|Orlu]]
*[[Oyo, Nigeria|Oyo]]
*'''[[Port Harcourt]]'''
*[[Potiskum]]
*[[Sokoto (city)|Sokoto]]
*[[Suleja]]
*[[Umuahia]]
*[[Uyo]]
*'''[[Warri]]'''
*[[Wukari]]
*[[Yenagoa]]
*[[Yola, Nigeria|Yola]]
*'''[[Zaria]]'''
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== See also ==
* [[List of Nigerian cities by population]]
* [[Lists of villages in Nigeria]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{citation |title= Some Aspects of Yoruba Urbanism |author=William R. Bascom |author-link=William R. Bascom|journal= American Anthropologist |year=1962 |volume=64 |issue=4 |pages=699–709 |url= https://escholarship.org/content/qt43h9640r/qt43h9640r.pdf?t=lnq1ci |via=[[California Digital Library]] | doi = 10.1525/aa.1962.64.4.02a00010|doi-access= free |url-access= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=  }}
* [http://www.naijaeforum.com/news/ Latest Political News in Nigeria] Cities

==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Cities in Nigeria|'''Cities in Nigeria'''}}

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