Kwa Ibo, Nigeria

Kwa Ibo, Nigeria is a submarine cable landing point in Nigeria (coordinates 4.5438°, 7.9974°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Nigeria's international connectivity infrastructure.

The Kwa Ibo River is a river that rises near Umuahia in Abia State, Nigeria, and flows in a southeastern direction through Akwa Ibom State to the Atlantic Ocean. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Kwa Ibo, Nigeria, international traffic can reach 34 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Angola, Bahrain, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt, France and 26 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Kwa Ibo, 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 major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

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