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Bedeno, 
Ethiopia
The UN expects Bedeno to count as a city from 2030, with 53,943 people. This is a projection: in 2025 it did not yet meet the UN's rule for a city.
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 Bedeno's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bedeno grew
Count 10 people in Bedeno in 2030 and the same count gives 56.9 in 2050.
On the UN's projection it will have 307,184 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2045 and 2050. The UN first counts it as a city in 2030, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Bedeno through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bedeno in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bedeno is the dot in colour with a ring around it, sized as it was in 2030. The grey dots are the other cities of Ethiopia in 2025, 259 in all, led by Addis Ababa, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2050, Bedeno covered 139 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2040, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
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 2050, 1 lived in Bedeno, which is 307,184 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 Bedeno's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 59 Addis Ababa6,705,705
- 937 Adama584,854
- 1107 Bahir Dar498,735
- 1146 Dire Dawa483,674
- 1230 Shashamane452,945
- 1250 Hawassa444,909
- 1257 Bishoftu442,776
- 1327 Jijiga422,225
- 1448 Gonder392,767
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 Bedeno are the UN's own, at five-year steps, every one of them projection, because the UN does not expect it to count as a city until 2030. 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 Bedeno 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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