Aba

Aba is a city of more than a million residents¹ in Abia State, Nigeria. Prominent buildings include the Enyimba Sports Stadium, used mostly for soccer, and the Aba LDS Temple, used by adherants of the Latter Day Saints branch of Christianity.

It did not have a million residents before the 21st century. ²The majority in the area, and probably in the city, is Igbo speaking and Christian.³

Footnotes

(1) rounded 2009 estimate from world.gazeteer.com, accessed 11/11/2009.
(2) interpolation from 2009 estimate and estimated current annual growth rate of about 5%, both from world.gazetter.com, accessed 11/11/2009.
(3) Nigeria Map 9 in Ethnologue Languages of the World, 15th ed. (SIL International, 2005).

External references

Image of Aba LDS Temple
Enyimba Sports Stadium