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Basha, 
Ethiopia
124,959 people lived in Basha in 2025. It is the 4902nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 63rd 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 Basha's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Basha grew
Where Basha had 10 people in 2010, it had 23.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 481,722 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. 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
Basha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Basha in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ethiopia and its 259 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Addis Ababa). Basha 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, Basha covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.5 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown by 50%, and its people have grown by 34%.
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 100 people in Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 1 lived in Basha, which is 124,959 people.
How to read this: shrink Ethiopia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Basha; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4839 Rihab Yemen126,332
- 4847 Chauri Chaura India126,176
- 4864 Delingat Egypt125,765
- 4901 Hisor Tajikistan125,054
- 4902 Basha124,959
- 4936 Boditi123,992
- 4985 Khar Bajaur Pakistan122,854
- 5014 Fujieda Japan122,203
- 5021 Phulidumar India122,053
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 3864 Debre Birhan156,788
- 3914 Sodo154,912
- 4306 Leku141,486
- 4681 Areka130,386
- 4902 Basha124,959
- 4936 Boditi123,992
- 5067 Yirga Cheffe121,109
- 5114 Chucko120,065
- 5474 Irba112,673
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 Basha 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 Basha 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