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Lagos Colony

1862-1906 UK possession in Western Africa
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Lagos Colony

Summary

Lagos Colony is a colony[1]. It draws 194 Wikipedia views per month (colony category, ranking #69 of 146).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lagos Colony is in the country of Nigeria[3].
  • Lagos Colony's instance of is recorded as colony[4].
  • Lagos Colony's capital is recorded as Lagos[5].
  • Lagos Colony's flag image is recorded as Flag of Lagos Colony (1888–1906).svg[6].
  • Lagos Colony's Commons category is recorded as Lagos Colony[7].
  • +1862-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Lagos Colony[8].
  • Lagos Colony was dissolved in +1906-02-16T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Lagos Colony's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 6.453055555555555, 'lon': 3.3958333333333335}[10].
  • Lagos Colony's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gvsk0v[11].
  • Lagos Colony's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Lagos Colony's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • Lagos Colony's OpenWeatherMap city ID is recorded as 2332459[14].
  • Lagos Colony's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007560084505171[15].

Body

Geography

Lagos Colony is in the country of Nigeria[3].

Designation and Status

Lagos Colony's instance of is recorded as colony[4].

History and Context

+1862-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Lagos Colony[8].

Why It Matters

Lagos Colony draws 194 Wikipedia views per month (colony category, ranking #69 of 146).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Related Entities

Nigeria

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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