Ibadan (nga)

Ibadan

Ibadan ranks 2,233rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Pinner, Ruda Śląska, and Belgian Congo. Memorable people born in Ibadan include Sade, Hugo Weaving, and Mutiu Adepoju. Memorable people who died in Ibadan include Amos Tutuola, Rashidi Yekini, and Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Ibadan has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many soccer players, and writers. Ibadan is located in Nigeria.

Ibadan is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third largest city by population in Nigeria with a total population of roughly 3,649,000 as of 2021, and nearly 2 million within its metropolitan area. At 3,080 square kilometres it is the country's largest city by land area. At the time of Nigeria's independence in 1960, Ibadan was the largest and most populous city in the country, and the second-most populous in Africa behind Cairo. Ibadan is ranked one of the fastest-growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the UN Human Settlements Program (2022). It is also ranked third in West Africa in the tech startups index. Ibadan joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016. During the 19th century, Ibadan was the capital of the Ibadan Republic, one of the most powerful states of contemporary Yorubaland. Read more on Wikipedia