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Lagos
[ lah-gohs, ley-gos ]
noun
- a seaport in SW Nigeria: former capital.
Lagos
/ ˈ±ô±ðɪɡɒ²õ /
noun
- the former capital and chief port of Nigeria, on the Bight of Benin: first settled in the sixteenth century; a slave market until the nineteenth century; ceded to Britain (1861); university (1962). Pop: 11Â 135Â 000 (2005 est)
- a state of SW Nigeria. Capital: Ikeja. Pop: 9Â 013Â 534 (2006). Area: 3345 sq km (1292 sq miles)
Lagos
- Capital of Nigeria and largest city in the country, located in the southwest corner of Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean ; Nigeria's economic center and chief port.
Example Sentences
Last year, Charterhouse launched a primary school in the city of Lagos and will open a secondary school this September.
Detty December makes Lagos almost unliveable for locals - traffic is horrible, prices inflate and businesses stop prioritising their regular customers, a radio presenter based in Lagos tells the BBC.
Millions from Lagos to Nairobi were plunged into digital darkness: messaging apps crashed and banking transactions failed.
City Section commissioner Vicky Lagos said games canceled this past week because the Los Angeles Unified School District did not hold classes will hopefully be made up before the regular season ends.
"Or you'd go to the shrine in Lagos and be like, 'I need to convey the feeling of the shrine to someone who lives in Cardiff.'"
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