Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Bandundu in 1975, there were 16.9 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 358,423 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.

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.

How to read this: every dot is one of the 223 cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kinshasa. The ringed dot in colour is Bandundu; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Bandundu covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.3 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 69%.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Bandundu, which is 212,016 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bandundu's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2788 Inayat Killi Pakistan212,640
2. 2789 Auchi Nigeria212,634
3. 2795 Am Timan Chad212,167
4. 2796 Narus South Sudan212,131
5. 2797 Bandundu212,016
6. 2799 Darauli India211,985
7. 2801 Koliwar India211,825
8. 2807 Dashoguz Turkmenistan211,569
9. 2808 Wuxue China211,544

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2728 Bumba216,429
2. 2734 Kahemba215,825
3. 2736 Kabongo215,612
4. 2765 Rutshuru214,158
5. 2797 Bandundu212,016
6. 2817 Kabondo-Dianda211,167
7. 2897 Luena205,691
8. 2908 Mongbwalu205,051
9. 2996 Musangala199,847

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.

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The figures for Bandundu 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 Bandundu 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