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Ado Ekiti, 
Nigeria
598,230 people lived in Ado Ekiti in 2025. It is the 911th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Nigeria.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ado Ekiti governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ado Ekiti grew
Where Ado Ekiti had 10 people in 1975, it had 29.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 761,345 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Ado Ekiti through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ado Ekiti in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ado Ekiti is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Nigeria in 2025, 457 in all, led by Lagos, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ado Ekiti covered 109 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.9 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 3 lived in Ado Ekiti, which is 598,230 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 Ado Ekiti's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 907 Leshan China600,101
- 908 Maoming China599,504
- 909 Chifeng China599,299
- 910 Londrina Brazil598,731
- 911 Ado Ekiti598,230
- 912 Kingston Jamaica598,012
- 913 Jiujiang China597,681
- 914 Huaibei China596,613
- 915 Huiyang China596,451
In Nigeria, 2025
- 766 Akure700,747
- 807 Calabar673,427
- 841 Bauchi642,082
- 862 Lokoja629,547
- 911 Ado Ekiti598,230
- 916 Ogale595,099
- 917 Katsina594,775
- 933 Yenagoa586,393
- 939 Madalla583,367
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 Ado Ekiti 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 Ado Ekiti 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