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Agbara, 
Nigeria
261,298 people lived in Agbara in 2025. It is the 2233rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 83rd 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 Agbara grew
For every 10 people in Agbara in 2005, there were 43.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 496,145 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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
Agbara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Agbara in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Agbara 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, Agbara covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 108 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 5.5 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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, 1 lived in Agbara, which is 261,298 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 Agbara; 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
- 2227 Jinja Uganda261,604
- 2228 Moirabari India261,593
- 2229 Hakodate Japan261,557
- 2232 Pemba Mozambique261,380
- 2233 Agbara261,298
- 2234 Areraj India261,142
- 2235 Sidi Bel Abbes Algeria261,103
- 2238 The Woodlands United States260,732
- 2243 Salinas [Santa Elena] Ecuador260,161
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2178 Lafia267,580
- 2180 Agbor267,341
- 2218 Jalingo262,796
- 2219 Mubi262,651
- 2233 Agbara261,298
- 2259 Abua258,314
- 2270 Otukpo257,334
- 2278 Ogu256,345
- 2280 Abat256,126
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 Agbara are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Agbara 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