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Abat, 
Nigeria
256,126 people lived in Abat in 2025. It is the 2280th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 87th 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 Abat's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Abat grew
For every 10 people in Abat in 2010, there were 26.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 455,509 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, 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
Abat through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Abat in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nigeria and its 457 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lagos). Abat is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Abat covered 75 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.7 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Abat, which is 256,126 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 Abat; 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
- 2275 Vanderbijlpark South Africa257,093
- 2276 Keren Eritrea256,896
- 2278 Ogu256,345
- 2279 Kilwa Democratic Republic of the Congo256,165
- 2280 Abat256,126
- 2281 Centurion South Africa255,900
- 2282 Wakayama Japan255,782
- 2283 Punto Fijo Venezuela255,662
- 2288 Skikda Algeria255,379
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2233 Agbara261,298
- 2259 Abua258,314
- 2270 Otukpo257,334
- 2278 Ogu256,345
- 2280 Abat256,126
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
- 2352 Abak248,528
- 2431 Ore241,251
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Abat are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Abat 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