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South West Nigeria is a region of Nigeria. It is mostly a Yoruba-speaking area, although there are different dialects even within the same state.
Ekiti State is a state in South West Nigeria.
Lagos State is a state in South West Nigeria.
Ogun State is a state in South West Nigeria. It is bordered by Lagos State to the south, Oyo and Osun states to the North, Ondo State to the east, and the Republic of Benin to the west.
Ondo State is a state in South West Nigeria.
Osun State is a state in South West Nigeria. It was created in August 1991 from the old Oyo State.
Oyo State is a state in South West Nigeria with the city of Ibadan as its capital.
Intercity Lagos-Ibadan Railway trains operate several times per day between Lagos and Ibadan. The new higher-speed railway line is expected to be extended northwards during the early 2020s.
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Abeokuta is the state capital of Ogun State in South West Nigeria. The city was home to about 450,000 people in 2006, and the metro area to over 1.1 million.
Ado Ekiti is a city of 425,000 people (2012) in Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria. Ado, as it is popularly called, is the capital of Ekiti State.
Akure is in Southwest Nigeria. Akure is the capital of Ondo State and headquarters of the Akure Kingdom.
Badagry, also known as Gbadagri, is a coastal town and local government area in Lagos State, South West Nigeria. Being the second largest town in Lagos State, Badagry is surrounded by lakes, creeks or runlets and island, which makes beaches and resorts one of the major attractions of the ancient town.
Ibadan is a city of 4,004,000 people (2024) in Oyo State, South West Nigeria. Its historic significance in the affairs of the declining Oyo Empire has endowed it with a lot of places to see and its location at the edge of the Yoruba heartland makes it an ideal base to explore the major Yoruba cities which might not always have as many developed facilities for the foreigner as Ibadan does.
Ikare is a city in Ondo State, South West Nigeria. Ikare is the short form of Ikare-Akoko.
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Ondo City is a city in Ondo State, South West Nigeria. Ondo city is the second largest city in Ondo state, and the trade centre for the surrounding region.
Osogbo (Oshogbo) is a city of almost 400,000 people (2016) in Osun State in Southwest Nigeria. Osogbo, sometimes called "Ile Aro" (home of dyeing), is a major dyeing centre.
Ikogosi Warm Springs is in Ekiti State, South West Nigeria and a popular tourist attraction where warm and cold springs come together at a point, but without mixing together. The resort has landscapes, lush green vegetation and gardens.
Lekki Conservation Centre in Nigeria is a nature reserve in Lagos, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Nigeria. It features a 401-metre-long canopy walkway, the longest in Africa.
Old Oyo National Park is one of the most popular tourist attraction centres in Nigeria, named after Old Oyo town called Oyo-ile – the political capital of the Oyo Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries. It has an outstanding 2,512 km² (970 sq mi) of land, most of which fall in Oyo state some extend to some part of Kwara State.
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ItinerariesLagos-Ibadan Railway is a 157-kilometre rail trip in South West Nigeria from Ebute Metta in Lagos to Moniya in Ibadan. The trip is a section of the proposed Lagos to Kano Standard Gauge Rail Project.
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Nature & adventureAs of 2023 the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves is made up of 738 reserves in 134 countries of which 22 are transboundary.
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Food & drinkNigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of ethnic groups that comprise Nigeria from the north to the south to the east and the west. Nigeria is home to numerous varieties of foods.
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Travel tipsLasting from the 1500s to the 1800s, the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity of extraordinary proportions, leaving a huge mark on four continents and irreversibly changing world history and geopolitics.
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