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Afikpo, 
Nigeria
201,084 people lived in Afikpo in 2025. It is the 2971st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 105th largest in Nigeria.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Afikpo grew
Count 10 people in Afikpo in 1975 and the same count gives 36.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 317,851 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Afikpo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Afikpo 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 Afikpo; 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, Afikpo covered 24 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.6 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Afikpo, which is 201,084 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Afikpo. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2957 Sakhakot Pakistan201,598
- 2959 Iringa Tanzania201,525
- 2964 Pasrur Pakistan201,450
- 2970 Narayanpur Bangladesh201,100
- 2971 Afikpo201,084
- 2975 Kropyvnytskyi Ukraine200,894
- 2981 Omoku200,802
- 2983 Kisii Kenya200,579
- 2985 Gamharia India200,505
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2706 Omuo-Obadore218,751
- 2713 Okitipupa218,097
- 2789 Auchi212,634
- 2861 Uromi208,157
- 2971 Afikpo201,084
- 2981 Omoku200,802
- 3032 Dutse197,314
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye189,841
- 3209 Amassoma188,265
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 Afikpo 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 Afikpo 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