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Aweday, 
Ethiopia
83,488 people lived in Aweday in 2025. It is the 7454th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 123rd largest in Ethiopia.
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 Aweday's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Aweday grew
Where Aweday had 10 people in 2010, it had 16.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 323,314 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. 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
Aweday through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Aweday 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 Aweday; 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, Aweday covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.1 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 91%, and its people have grown by 62%.
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, 1 lived in Aweday, which is 83,488 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ethiopia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Aweday's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 6672 Kipese Democratic Republic of the Congo92,786
- 6688 Fatehpur India92,631
- 6818 Bokhtar Tajikistan90,998
- 7167 Kiambu Kenya86,758
- 7454 Aweday83,488
- 7666 Bandar Seri Bentan Indonesia81,340
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah Yemen80,686
- 7734 Caxito Angola80,602
- 7767 Mutubis Egypt80,283
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 5114 Chucko120,065
- 5474 Irba112,673
- 6060 Karamile101,975
- 6478 Gogi95,403
- 7454 Aweday83,488
- 8905 Wenago69,703
- 9118 Chelenko67,991
- 10437 Osciot59,256
- 11537 Gununew53,312
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 Aweday 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 Aweday 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