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Arsi Negelle, 
Ethiopia
264,039 people lived in Arsi Negelle in 2025. It is the 2209th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Ethiopia.
Like every city on this site, Arsi Negelle is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Arsi Negelle grew
For every 10 people in Arsi Negelle in 1975, there were 36.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,872 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Arsi Negelle through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Arsi Negelle in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 259 cities in Ethiopia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Addis Ababa. The ringed dot in colour is Arsi Negelle; 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, Arsi Negelle covered 18 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.6 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 2 lived in Arsi Negelle, which is 264,039 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 Arsi Negelle; 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
- 2203 Nautan India264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad India264,322
- 2205 Tima Egypt264,280
- 2206 Kaunas Lithuania264,162
- 2209 Arsi Negelle264,039
- 2215 Firozpur India263,304
- 2216 Pali India263,275
- 2218 Jalingo Nigeria262,796
- 2219 Mubi Nigeria262,651
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 1876 Dessie306,979
- 1881 Mek'elē305,037
- 2012 Kombolcha288,941
- 2185 Bule Hora267,051
- 2209 Arsi Negelle264,039
- 2366 Irgalem246,701
- 2407 Quiha243,110
- 2472 Bonsa Bota237,061
- 2610 Harar225,677
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 Arsi Negelle 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 Arsi Negelle 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