Lagos, Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria is a submarine cable landing point in Nigeria (coordinates 6.4389°, 3.4232°). It serves 8 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in Nigeria's international connectivity infrastructure.

Lagos, or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan port city in southwestern Nigeria. As of November 2025, the size of the city's population has been estimated to be between 17 and 21 million residents, making Lagos the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until the government's December 1991 decision to relocate its capital to Abuja, in the centre of the country. Apart from serving as a major African financial center, Lagos has also played a significant role in the national economy, serving as the economic hub of Lagos State and the entire country of Nigeria. The city has a significant influence on commerce, entertainment, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, and fashion in Africa. Lagos is also among the top ten of the world's fastest-growing cities and urban areas. A megacity, it has the second-highest GDP in Africa, and houses one of the largest and busiest seaports on the continent. Due to the large urban population and port traffic volumes, Lagos is classified as a Medium-Port Megacity. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Lagos, Nigeria

Cables landing at Lagos, Nigeria are operated by 68 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Altice Portugal, Angola Cables, Angola Telecom, BICS, BT, Bayobab, Broadband Infraco, Cable Consortium of Liberia, Camtel, and 58 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Lagos, Nigeria, international traffic can reach 48 countries through 8 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Bahrain, Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire and 40 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 3 monitoring events on cables serving Lagos, Nigeria in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a 45,000-kilometre submarine cable system that encircles the African continent and extends into the Middle East and Europe. At the time of its completion in 2024, it became the longest submarine cable ever built — by a margin of several thousand kilometres — and it remains the largest single system by landing count, with 46 landings across 33 countries. Read more →
• Equiano (2023) — Equiano is Google's privately-funded submarine cable system connecting Europe and Africa. Activated in stages between 2022 and 2023, it runs roughly 15,000 km from Sesimbra in Portugal down the entire west coast of Africa to Melkbosstrand near Cape Town, with branch landings at Lagos (Nigeria), Lomé (Togo), Swakopmund (Namibia), and the remote British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. Read more →
• Nigeria Cameroon Submarine Cable System (NCSCS) (2015) — The Nigeria Cameroon Submarine Cable System (NCSCS) is a short, single-owner cable that reveals a textbook story about African internet economics: a 1,100-kilometre fibre linking two neighbours whose actual latency, as measured from the outside, depends far more on commercial routing than on physics. Read more →
• Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) (2012) — Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) is a 17,000 km submarine cable that runs along the entire Atlantic coast of West Africa and ends in France. It lands at 19 stations across 19 countries, which makes it one of the most widely-landed submarine cables in the world. Read more →
• West Africa Cable System (WACS) (2012) — The West Africa Cable System (WACS) is a 14,530 km submarine cable constructed by Alcatel-Lucent and ready for service in 2012. It runs from Yzerfontein in South Africa's Western Cape up the entire west coast of Africa to London, with 14 landing points — 12 along the African seaboard (Namibia, Angola, both Congos, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Cape Verde) plus two in Europe (Canar Read more →
• Glo-1 (2010) — Glo-1 is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Ghana, United Kingdom, Nigeria. Its 3 landing points at Accra, Bude, Lagos bridge the networks of West Africa, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• MainOne (2010) — MainOne is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Portugal. Its 5 landing points at Abidjan, Accra, Dakar, Lagos, Seixal bridge the networks of West Africa, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• SAT-3/WASC (2002) — Based on 58 RIPE Atlas measurements from GeoCables monitoring infrastructure, March–April 2026. SAT-3/WASC — the South Atlantic Terminal / West Africa Submarine Cable — is, on paper, a fossil. Its 14,350 kilometres of fibre were laid down in 2002 on behalf of a consortium of 32 telecom operators, ranging from AT&T and BT to Maroc Telecom and Angola Telecom. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.