Lagos (birni)

Birnin Legas, ko kuma Birnin Ikko, shi ne babban birnin Jihar Legas da ke Najeriya. Legas yana daya daga cikin birane mafi girma da yawan jama'a a Afirka da ma duniya baki daya. Legas ne birni na biyu mafi girma a Afirka, kuma na bakwai a duniya.^[1] Kimanin mutum miliyan 15.3 (a shekara ta 2022) ke rayuwa a Legas.^[2] Garin Legas na da mutane kimanin 23.5 million a shekara ta 2018, wanda ya maida shi babban birni mafi girma a nahiyar Afirka. Legas ya kasance cibiyar kasuwanci a jihar Legas da Najeriya gaba daya.^[3][4] Legas tana daya daga cikin birane goma masu habbaka da sauri a duniya^[5][6]Babban birnin yana matsayin na hudu a kawo kudin shiga (GDP) a Africa^[7]kuma akwai daya daga cikin tashar jiragen ruwa mafi hada-hada Afirka.^[8]Birnin Legas cibiya ne na ilimi, gargajiya a sassan Afirka da ke kudancin sahara.

Legas a da gida ne ga mutanen Awori, wani reshe ne na Yarbanci na yammacin Afirka. Amma yanzu ta zama birnin tashoshin jiragen ruwa wanda ya samo asali daga tsibirai dabam-dabam.^[9]

Gwamnatin tarayya ke gudanar da harkokin wannan babban birni har izuwa shekarar 1967 lokacin da aka rarraba birnin zuwa kananan hukumomi 7 da muke da su a yau.^[10][11] da kuma karin birane 3 wanda ya sa kananan hukumomin suka koma 13 wanda suka samar da jihar Legas na yau.^[12][13]

Har wa yau, an mai da Ikeja ta zamo babban birnin jihar a shekara ta (1976), sannan Abuja ta koma babban birnin tarayya a shekara ta (1991). Wuraren da ake kira birnin Legas watau "Lagos Metroplitan Area"^{[14] [15][16]}sun hada da manyan biranen^[17] jihar guda 16 har da Ikeja. Wannan manyan birane sun mamaye kashi 37% na fadin kasar Legas, sannan tana dauke da fiye da kaso 86% na mutanen jihar Legas.

Akwai rudani game da ainihin yawan mutane birnin Legas. A kidaya da akayi na shekara ta 2006 ya nuna cewa akwai adadin mutane miliyan 8 a birnin. Sai dai gwamnatin jihar ta nuna rashin amincewarta ga adadin kidayan inda ta daki nata adadin da kimanin mutane miliyan 16. A shekara ta 2015 wani kundi wanda gwamnati bata tantance shi ya sanya mutanen Legas har zuwa kusa da jihar Ogun kimanin mutum miliyan 21.^[18][19][20]

1. ↑ World's fastest growing cities and urban areas from 2006 to 2020, by CityMayors.com
2. ↑ "Population". Lagos State Government. 2011. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
3. ↑ John Campbell (10 July 2012). "This Is Africa's New Biggest City: Lagos, Nigeria, Population 21 Million". The Atlantic. Washington DC. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
4. ↑ The Most Populated Cities of the World. World Megacities - Nations Online Project". nationsonline.org. Retrieved 23 September 2021
5. ↑ "Kwafin ajiya". Archived from the original on 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
6. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/place/Lagos-Nigeria
7. ↑ "These cities are the hubs of Africa's economic boom". Big Think. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
8. ↑ "Lagos | City, Population, & History | Britannica". britannica.com. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
9. ↑ "CASE STUDY OF LAGOS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
10. ↑ "A Flood-Free Lagos: The Regional Imperative". Retrieved 27 November 2015.
11. ↑ Olukoju, Ayodeji (1996). "The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years". Labour History Review. Liverpool University Press. 61: 49–70. doi:10.3828/lhr.61.1.49. Retrieved 27 November 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
12. ↑ "Lagos State Information". National Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 9 November 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
13. ↑ "Population - Lagos State". Lagos State Govern me not. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
14. ↑ A Flood-Free Lagos: The Regional Imperative". Retrieved 27 November2015.
15. ↑ "Olukoju, Ayodeji (1996). "The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years". Labour History Review. Liverpool University Press. 61: 49–70. doi:10.3828/lhr.61.1.49. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
16. ↑ "Lagos Metropolitan Area: Scope and scale of the shelter problem". Retrieved 27 November 2015.
17. ↑ "Administrative Levels - Lagos State". Nigeria Congress. Archived from the original on 25 December 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
18. ↑ Metro Lagos (Nigeria): Local Government Areas". City Population. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
19. ↑ "Population". Lagos State Government. 2011. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
20. ↑ Pacetti, M.; Passerini, G.; Brebbia, C.A.; Latini, G. (2012). The Sustainable City VII: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. ISBN 9781845645786.