Aboh, Nigeria

For every 10 people in Aboh in 1975, there were 210.3 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 2.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.

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.

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 Aboh; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Aboh covered 384 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 54 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 33.8 times its size, and its people are 21 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 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 6 lived in Aboh, which is 1.4 million people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Aboh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 363 Mesa United States1,398,369
2. 364 Portland United States1,397,788
3. 365 Durg India1,393,235
4. 366 Valencia Spain1,390,045
5. 367 Aboh1,374,320
6. 368 Abuja1,373,722
7. 369 Thrissur India1,371,675
8. 370 Fort Lauderdale United States1,368,027
9. 371 León Mexico1,367,521

In Nigeria, 2025

1. 271 Benin City1,845,432
2. 305 Warri1,607,702
3. 316 Uyo1,567,115
4. 355 Aba1,428,069
5. 367 Aboh1,374,320
6. 368 Abuja1,373,722
7. 399 Ilorin1,282,219
8. 420 Maiduguri1,225,505
9. 464 Enugu1,115,303

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.

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The figures for Aboh 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 Aboh 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 →

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