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Abeokuta, 
Nigeria
801,826 people lived in Abeokuta in 2025. It is the 659th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd 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 Abeokuta's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Abeokuta grew
Where Abeokuta had 10 people in 1975, it had 34.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Abeokuta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Abeokuta 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 Abeokuta; 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, Abeokuta covered 178 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 56 km² of it. That is 70 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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, 3 lived in Abeokuta, which is 801,826 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 Abeokuta; 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
- 655 Pontianak Indonesia808,759
- 656 Udaipur India807,617
- 657 Jining China803,706
- 658 Andijon Uzbekistan803,518
- 659 Abeokuta801,826
- 660 Belagavi India800,130
- 661 Bilaspur India799,772
- 662 Kandahar Afghanistan799,015
- 663 Cuiabá Brazil798,772
In Nigeria, 2025
- 565 Ikorodu916,166
- 572 Sokoto903,238
- 622 Umuahia843,245
- 633 Nsukka830,196
- 659 Abeokuta801,826
- 668 Oyo793,241
- 705 Yola758,153
- 753 Zaria712,688
- 766 Akure700,747
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Abeokuta are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Abeokuta 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