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Abak, 
Nigeria
248,528 people lived in Abak in 2025. It is the 2352nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 90th largest in Nigeria.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Abak's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Abak grew
Count 10 people in Abak in 1990 and the same count gives 47.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 442,119 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Abak through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Abak in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Abak; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Abak covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.5 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 4.7 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Abak, which is 248,528 people.
How to read this: shrink Nigeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Abak; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2344 Edgecliff Village United States249,260
- 2347 Balrampur India248,830
- 2348 Dausa India248,804
- 2350 Cherkasy Ukraine248,683
- 2352 Abak248,528
- 2353 Lisala Democratic Republic of the Congo248,434
- 2354 Naugarh India248,273
- 2355 Demba Democratic Republic of the Congo248,191
- 2358 Qus Egypt247,941
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2278 Ogu256,345
- 2280 Abat256,126
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
- 2352 Abak248,528
- 2431 Ore241,251
- 2486 Funtua236,087
- 2529 Biliri232,398
- 2531 Oke Iho232,348
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Abak are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Abak publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries