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Akugba, 
Nigeria
183,921 people lived in Akugba in 2025. It is the 3278th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 113th largest in Nigeria.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Akugba's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Akugba grew
For every 10 people in Akugba in 2010, there were 15.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 304,222 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Akugba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Akugba 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 Akugba; 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, Akugba covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.8 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 85%, and its people have grown by 59%.
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 Akugba, which is 183,921 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 Akugba's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3255 Ruwa Zimbabwe185,224
- 3258 Biak Kota Indonesia184,918
- 3269 Atakpamé Togo184,404
- 3271 Brikama Gambia184,321
- 3278 Akugba183,921
- 3287 Koudougou Burkina Faso183,409
- 3291 Afamolla Bangladesh183,242
- 3311 Sumbawanga Tanzania181,940
- 3313 Kotli Pakistan181,837
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2981 Omoku200,802
- 3032 Dutse197,314
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye189,841
- 3209 Amassoma188,265
- 3278 Akugba183,921
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa166,817
- 4091 Bori148,370
- 4389 Rubuchi138,912
- 4522 Okposi134,677
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 Akugba are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Akugba 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