Metroji clue #113

Lagos in five emoji

Nigeria

Somewhere around twenty million people, growing faster than the infrastructure, and the cultural engine for a good part of the continent. It stopped being the capital in 1991 and nobody noticed.

What each emoji refers to

Nollywood turns out titles at a rate that puts it among the largest film industries in the world by volume.
Fela Kuti built Afrobeat here and ran the Shrine as a venue and a standing political problem.
Makoko is a community built on stilts over the lagoon, where the streets are water and moved by canoe.
The city spreads across islands and mainland, joined by bridges that carry some of the worst traffic anywhere.
Balogun market runs for streets in every direction and the stalls spill into the road by the afternoon.

Lagos at a glance

Country
Nigeria
Coordinates
6.52Β° N, 3.38Β° E
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Lagos.

City Distance Direction
Porto-NovoBenin 80 km
LomΓ©Togo 240 km
AccraGhana 410 km
AbujaNigeria 530 km
MalaboEquatorial Guinea 670 km
SΓ£o TomΓ©SΓ£o TomΓ© and PrΓ­ncipe 780 km

Today's city is a different one

Metroji picks a new city every day at midnight, wherever you are. Everyone gets the same one, so scores are comparable.

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