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Nigeria · West Africa · Synthetic City Twin
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Lagos.
A city of connected lives. Explore the residents, households and systems that make up Lagos’s synthetic City Twin.
Published snapshots · Synthetic records · Evidence you can inspect
26.39MSynthetic residents
6.85MHouseholds
20Local government areas
40+Connected domains
A closer look
Find your place in the city.
Choose a local government area to explore its residents, households and health facilities.
20 areas
Bar length shows each area’s resident population. Areas are listed alphabetically.
Published area totals · View source snapshot ↗
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Turn the records into a view.
Compare published aggregates, inspect the values and take the data with you.
Population by area
Published aggregates are preview datasets. SQL examples illustrate the analysis and do not run a database query.
Resident life
See a life behind the numbers.
Follow a published synthetic resident through the records that connect their life.
Choose a life view
Each view opens a sample with matching records. Available life areas vary by resident.
Mobility & transport ↗A connected city
40 catalogue entries · Six featured domains
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Published release evidence
523 checks · 438 passed · 10 failed · 75 other
Snapshot · 3 September 2026
438 of 523
checks passed.
- Passed
- 438
- Failed
- 10
- Other*
- 75
*Checks outside the reported pass/fail totals. A failed check can describe a disclosed residual; inspect its explanation before interpreting the result.
Review individual outcomes →Passed checks by category
7 categoriesInspect the 20 published domain summaries
Context for the numbers
Profile measures · Census calibration
Population benchmarks · reference and generated totals
These benchmark years are calibration targets. Matching them does not establish independent statistical validity across the dataset.
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15 export files · CSV, JSON and SQL
Analysis examples
Representative SQL for the five views, ready to adapt to your own environment.
Download SQL ↓Semantic dictionary
Six public entity families and their descriptions. Physical schemas are not included.
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