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Bafoussam, 
Cameroon
321,489 people lived in Bafoussam in 2025. It is the 1789th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Cameroon.
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 Bafoussam'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 Bafoussam grew
For every 10 people in Bafoussam in 1975, there were 21.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 364,027 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Bafoussam through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bafoussam in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Cameroon in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Yaoundé. The ringed dot in colour is Bafoussam; 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, Bafoussam covered 56 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 100 people in Cameroon in 2025, 1 lived in Bafoussam, which is 321,489 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Cameroon, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bafoussam's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
- 1786 Shariatpur Bangladesh321,804
- 1787 Timofeevka Russia321,680
- 1788 Katni India321,522
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 1790 Chuzhou China321,424
- 1791 Ilebo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,392
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi Vietnam320,907
- 1793 Famenin Iran320,591
In Cameroon, 2025
- 1052 Maroua526,702
- 1442 Bamenda394,155
- 1658 Ngaoundéré345,148
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2649 Buea222,996
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 Bafoussam 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 Bafoussam 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