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Amparihimahitsy, 
Madagascar
170,981 people lived in Amparihimahitsy in 2025. It is the 3543rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Madagascar.
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 Amparihimahitsy'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 Amparihimahitsy grew
Count 10 people in Amparihimahitsy in 2000 and the same count gives 28.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 354,753 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 2000, 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
Amparihimahitsy through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Amparihimahitsy in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Madagascar · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 24 cities in Madagascar in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Antananarivo. The ringed dot in colour is Amparihimahitsy; 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, Amparihimahitsy covered 9 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.0 km² of it.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Madagascar
Its share of Madagascar
Of every 1,000 people in Madagascar in 2025, 5 lived in Amparihimahitsy, which is 170,981 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Madagascar, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Amparihimahitsy's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3525 Luau Angola172,177
- 3528 Anlong Veng Cambodia172,053
- 3531 Zhanaozen Kazakhstan171,827
- 3538 Beanibazar Bangladesh171,417
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy170,981
- 3547 Nampo North Korea170,683
- 3560 Shahrasti Bangladesh169,908
- 3568 Kefole Ethiopia169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo Ethiopia169,004
In Madagascar, 2025
- 118 Antananarivo3,916,219
- 1838 Antsiramandroso312,434
- 2155 Ambano270,357
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy170,981
- 3817 Ambatolahy II158,588
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Amparihimahitsy are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Amparihimahitsy 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