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Aleta Wendo, 
Ethiopia
169,004 people lived in Aleta Wendo in 2025. It is the 3575th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 33rd largest in Ethiopia.
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 Aleta Wendo grew
For every 10 people in Aleta Wendo in 1975, there were 22.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 745,681 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: 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
Aleta Wendo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Aleta Wendo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ethiopia and its 259 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Addis Ababa). Aleta Wendo is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Aleta Wendo covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.3 km² of it. That is 8 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 30%, and its people have grown by 15%.
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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 1 lived in Aleta Wendo, which is 169,004 people.
How to read this: shrink Ethiopia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Aleta Wendo; 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
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy Madagascar170,981
- 3547 Nampo North Korea170,683
- 3560 Shahrasti Bangladesh169,908
- 3568 Kefole169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo169,004
- 3588 Faya-Largeau Chad168,302
- 3593 Mukubu Democratic Republic of the Congo168,033
- 3607 Gao Mali167,417
- 3611 Ulipur Bangladesh167,347
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 2661 Hossana221,895
- 2737 Asella215,594
- 2920 Alaba Kulito204,316
- 3568 Kefole169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo169,004
- 3695 Durame163,896
- 3823 Shufune158,225
- 3864 Debre Birhan156,788
- 3914 Sodo154,912
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 Aleta Wendo 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 Aleta Wendo 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