Nigeria address generator
Random Nigeria addresses with real city and state names, laid out the way Nigeria writes them. No open dataset links postcodes to places. Postcodes are left out unless you turn on pattern-valid placeholders.
- B Places verified
- 927 cities
- 37 states
- Postcode: not linked
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102 Adebowale Adeniyan Boulevard Samamiya Jigawa Nigeria
- City and state: GeoNames; postcode: not linked to places
- Street name, number: synthetic
Synthetic test data: not a verified or deliverable address.
- Street
- 102 Adebowale Adeniyan Boulevard
- City
- Samamiya
- State
- Jigawa
- Postcode
- Not linked to placesNo open dataset links postcodes to places here. Turn on placeholder postcodes to add a pattern-valid one.
- Country
- Nigeria (NG)
- Coordinates
- 11.349, 9.64 Approximate centre of the locality, not the building
How addresses are written in Nigeria
Layout from Google’s address metadata (libaddressinput), the format data Chrome and Android use for address forms.
- Required fields
- Street address and city
- Postcode
- Examples:
930283,300001,931104
Pattern:\d{6} - States
- 37 in the dataset
- Capitals
- Mail labels conventionally capitalise the city and state
- Script
- Latin
- Calling code
- +234
- Official lookup
- Postcode finder
About the data for Nigeria
BPlaces verified. Places and regions are dataset-backed, but no open dataset links postcodes to places, so postcodes are left out unless you ask for placeholders.
- Localities
- 927 · GeoNames populated places (cities500)
- Postcodes
- No open dataset links postcodes to places. Postcodes are left out unless you turn on pattern-valid placeholders.
- Names
- en_NG + yo_NG (country-specific list)
- Streets
- Synthetic names built from common local street words. They are not taken from real maps.
Sample Nigeria addresses
Eight addresses generated with a fixed seed. The city, state are real; street names and numbers are not.
| Formatted address | Postcode |
|---|---|
| 40 Spring Boulevard Apartment 31 Ikare Ondo | — |
| 185 Israel Crescent Nkpor Anambra | — |
| 86 Olaoluwa Avenue Ake-Eze Enugu | — |
| 21 Nwogu Crescent Flat 34 Oguta Imo | — |
| 4 Union Street Itu Akwa Ibom | — |
| 174 Babtunde Road Ubiaja Edo | — |
| 34 Spring Way Apartment 40 Iwo Osun | — |
| 114 Cedar Street Ahoada Rivers | — |
States of Nigeria
Pick one in the generator above to keep every address inside it.
| State | Localities |
|---|---|
| Abia | 16 |
| Adamawa | 24 |
| Akwa Ibom | 32 |
| Anambra | 26 |
| Bauchi | 36 |
| Bayelsa | 9 |
| Benue | 27 |
| Borno | 36 |
| Cross River | 20 |
| Delta | 26 |
| Ebonyi | 15 |
| Edo | 20 |
| Ekiti | 20 |
| Enugu | 24 |
| FCT | 7 |
| Gombe | 19 |
| Imo | 25 |
| Jigawa | 30 |
| Kaduna | 29 |
| Kano | 39 |
| Katsina | 40 |
| Kebbi | 27 |
| Kogi | 29 |
| Kwara | 22 |
| Lagos | 32 |
| Nasarawa | 14 |
| Niger | 39 |
| Ogun State | 32 |
| Ondo | 20 |
| Osun | 30 |
| Oyo | 32 |
| Plateau | 22 |
| Rivers | 26 |
| Sokoto | 23 |
| Taraba | 17 |
| Yobe | 24 |
| Zamfara | 18 |
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