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Atakpamé, 
Togo
184,404 people lived in Atakpamé in 2025. It is the 3269th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Togo.
Like every city on this site, Atakpamé 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 Atakpamé grew
Count 10 people in Atakpamé in 1990 and the same count gives 34.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 352,840 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 1990, 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
Atakpamé through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Atakpamé in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Togo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Togo and its 17 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lomé). Atakpamé 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, Atakpamé covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 Togo
Its share of Togo
Of every 100 people in Togo in 2025, 2 lived in Atakpamé, which is 184,404 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Togo; the coloured squares live in Atakpamé. 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
- 3247 Meja Road India186,137
- 3249 Naivasha Kenya185,944
- 3255 Ruwa Zimbabwe185,224
- 3258 Biak Kota Indonesia184,918
- 3269 Atakpamé184,404
- 3271 Brikama Gambia184,321
- 3278 Akugba Nigeria183,921
- 3287 Koudougou Burkina Faso183,409
- 3291 Afamolla Bangladesh183,242
In Togo, 2025
- 204 Lomé2,415,011
- 2408 Dapaong242,985
- 2835 Blitta-Gare209,755
- 3269 Atakpamé184,404
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 Atakpamé are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Atakpamé 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