naijaLGA-API

API for getting all states and Local Government Areas in Nigeria-🇳🇬

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About

A simple API that shows the states and Local Government Areas in Nigera, and displays them in json format, nice right 👉, For developer who need a dropdown of States or Local government Areas in Nigeria(Not constrained to that use case only).

built with ❤️‍, Django, Django Rest Framework. More details on technology used below👇.

Versioning

We hope to improve this API on every release version, and these changes won't always be backward compatible. V1 will be live at {domain}/api/v1/ and is structured as described below👇.

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States

To get the list of all states in Nigeria, Endpoint. {domain}/api/v1/state/

{
  {
    "state": "Abia",
    "capital": "Umuahia",
    "lat": 22.92,
    "population": 2338487,
    "coord": {
      "lon": 7.515307,
      "lat": 5.454095,
    },
  },
  {
    "state": "Adamawa",
    "capital": "Yola",
    "population": 2102053,
    "coord": {
      "lon": 12.388189,
      "lat": 9.512977,
    }
  },
  ...
}

States are identified using their names, which are unique and case sensitive(state begins with an uppercase /Abia/). For example, a state: {domain}/api/v1/states/Abia/

{
    "state": "Abia",
    "capital": "Umuahia",
    "lat": 22.92,
    "population": 2338487,
    "coord": {
      "lon": 7.515307,
      "lat": 5.454095,
    },
}

States And Their LGA's

To get the list of all states and their LGA's in Nigeria, Endpoint. {domain}/api/v1/stateslga/

{
  {
    "state": "Abia",
    "capital": "Umuahia",
    "lat": 22.92,
    "population": 2845380,
    "coord": {
      "lon": 7.515307,
      "lat": 5.454095,
    },
    "lga": [
      {
        "name": "Aba North",
        "population": 106844,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 7.394788,
          "lat": 5.093863
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Aba South",
        "population": 427421,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 7.349714,
          "lat": 5.087659
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Arochukwu",
        "population": 169339,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 7.916667,
          "lat": 5.383333
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Bende",
        "population": 192621,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 9.000001,
          "lat": 1e-06
        }
      },
      ...
    ]
  },
  {
    "state": "Adamawa",
    "capital": "Yola",
    "population": 3178950,
    "coord": {
      "lon": 12.388189,
      "lat": 9.512977,
    },
    "lga": [
      {
        "name": "Demsa",
        "population": 178407,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 12.150000,
          "lat": 9.466667
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Fufore",
        "population": 209460,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 7.916667,
          "lat": 9.258518
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Ganye",
        "population": 169948,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 11.854469,
          "lat": 8.437999
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Gombi",
        "population": 147787,
        "coord": {
          "lon": 12.727279,
          "lat": 10.155436
        }
      },
      ...
    ]
  },
  ...
}

States and their LGA's identified using their names, which are unique and case sensitive(state begins with an uppercase /Abia/). For example, a state: {domain}/api/v1/stateslga/Abia/

{
  "state": "Abia",
  "capital": "Umuahia",
  "lat": 22.92,
  "population": 2845380,
  "coord": {
    "lon": 7.515307,
    "lat": 5.454095,
  },
  "lga": [
    {
      "name": "Aba North",
      "population": 106844,
      "coord": {
        "lon": 7.394788,
        "lat": 5.093863
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Aba South",
      "population": 427421,
      "coord": {
        "lon": 7.349714,
        "lat": 5.087659
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Arochukwu",
      "population": 169339,
      "coord": {
        "lon": 7.916667,
        "lat": 5.383333
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Bende",
      "population": 192621,
      "coord": {
        "lon": 9.000001,
        "lat": 1e-06
      }
    },
    ...
  ]
}

List of endpoints

This is just a summary of all four endpoints you can call.

• GET /states/ returns a list of all states in Nigeria.
• GET /states/<state_name>/ returns a state. pass in the state name i.e Abuja.
• GET /stateslga/ returns a list of all states and their LGA's in Nigeria.
• GET /stateslga/<state_name>/ returns a state and it's LGA's. pass in the state name i.e Abuja.

Using Django Rest Freamework(DRF)

Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs 👉 more details.

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Contributions

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the Contribution guidelines for this project.