nigeria-geojson-data

🇳🇬 Nigeria GeoJSON API

A comprehensive, structured, and ready-to-use dataset of all States, Local Government Areas (LGAs), and Wards in Nigeria, including their geographic coordinates.

Ideal for developers, civic tech, GIS, mapping tools, and data-driven apps.

📁 Folder: data/

File Description
states.json List of all Nigerian states (36 + FCT)
lgas.json Object mapping each state to its list of LGAs
wards.json Flat list of all wards with their lat/long
lgas-with-wards.json Nested object: state → LGA → wards
full.json 🔥 All-in-one structure: state → LGA → wards with coordinates

🔎 File Structure Examples

states.json

["Abia", "Adamawa", "Akwa Ibom", ..., "Zamfara"]

lgas.json

{
  "Kwara": ["Ilorin East", "Ilorin South", "Ilorin West", ...],
  ...
}

wards.json

[
  {
    "State": "Kwara",
    "LGA": "Ilorin West",
    "Ward": "Ajikobi",
    "Latitude": 8.4892,
    "Longitude": 4.5382
  },
  ...
]

lgas-with-wards.json

{
  "Kwara": {
    "Ilorin West": [
      {
        "name": "Ajikobi",
        "latitude": 8.4892,
        "longitude": 4.5382
      },
      ...
    ]
  }
}

full.json

[
  {
    "state": "Kwara",
    "lgas": [
      {
        "name": "Ilorin West",
        "wards": [
          {
            "name": "Ajikobi",
            "latitude": 8.4892,
            "longitude": 4.5382
          },
          ...
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]

🚀 How to Use

Host the files on:

Then fetch like:

fetch("/data/full.json").then(res => res.json());

📌 Use Cases

📜 License

MIT – free to use, modify, and distribute.
Attribution is appreciated but not required.

🙌 Contributions

Found an error or want to add metadata (region, postal codes, coordinates)?
PRs welcome!

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