Nigerian metropolis

The answer

LAGOS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LAGOS answer page.

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• IBADAN (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for LAGOS

Every other clue in this collection answered by LAGOS, most used first.

• Nigeria's largest city - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Nigerian city - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Capital of Nigeria. - used 13 times, most recently in 1998
• Former capital of Nigeria - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Nigerian capital - used 13 times, most recently in 2006
• Former Nigerian capital - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Nigeria's capital - used 10 times, most recently in 1998
• Nigerian port - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Nigerian seaport - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Port of Nigeria - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Nigeria's former capital - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Largest city in Nigeria - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Indian metropolis - DELHI, used 47 times
• Japanese metropolis - OSAKA, used 36 times
• Nigerian currency - NAIRA, used 16 times
• Honshu metropolis - OSAKA, used 15 times
• Nebraska metropolis - OMAHA, used 14 times
• Midwest metropolis - OMAHA, used 12 times

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