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Azare, 
Nigeria
252,755 people lived in Azare in 2025. It is the 2303rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 89th largest in Nigeria.
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 Azare grew
Count 10 people in Azare in 1975 and the same count gives 30.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 340,603 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: 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
Azare through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Azare in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Azare; 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, Azare covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.5 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Azare, which is 252,755 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Azare. 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
- 2295 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina253,857
- 2299 Borigaon India253,566
- 2300 Rabak Sudan253,166
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
- 2308 Shendi Sudan252,344
- 2310 Rosetta Egypt252,147
- 2312 Sunamganj Bangladesh251,822
- 2313 Tiaret Algeria251,576
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2270 Otukpo257,334
- 2278 Ogu256,345
- 2280 Abat256,126
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
- 2352 Abak248,528
- 2431 Ore241,251
- 2486 Funtua236,087
- 2529 Biliri232,398
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Azare 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 Azare 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 →
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