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Agbor, 
Nigeria
267,341 people lived in Agbor in 2025. It is the 2180th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 80th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Agbor is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Agbor grew
For every 10 people in Agbor in 1980, there were 52.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 385,399 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Agbor through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Agbor 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 Agbor; 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, Agbor covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 5.3 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 Agbor, which is 267,341 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Agbor. 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
- 2174 Ternate Indonesia267,842
- 2176 Bellevue United States267,696
- 2177 Kabwe Zambia267,618
- 2178 Lafia267,580
- 2180 Agbor267,341
- 2185 Bule Hora Ethiopia267,051
- 2186 Bydgoszcz Poland266,908
- 2187 Yaguang China266,899
- 2188 Bihpur India266,585
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2121 Magboro273,818
- 2151 Eket270,603
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo269,742
- 2178 Lafia267,580
- 2180 Agbor267,341
- 2218 Jalingo262,796
- 2219 Mubi262,651
- 2233 Agbara261,298
- 2259 Abua258,314
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 Agbor are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Agbor 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