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Bertoua, 
Cameroon
235,399 people lived in Bertoua in 2025. It is the 2491st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Cameroon.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bertoua grew
Where Bertoua had 10 people in 1975, it had 42 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 519,845 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Bertoua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bertoua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cameroon and its 44 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Yaoundé). Bertoua 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, Bertoua covered 50 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 4.2 times as many.
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 Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 1,000 people in Cameroon in 2025, 8 lived in Bertoua, which is 235,399 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Cameroon, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bertoua's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2483 Amarpur India236,273
- 2486 Funtua Nigeria236,087
- 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu Democratic Republic of the Congo236,056
- 2489 Sinnuris Egypt235,984
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2494 Al-Hasakah Syria235,085
- 2495 Blumenau Brazil234,982
- 2498 Tanda India234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara India234,318
In Cameroon, 2025
- 1658 Ngaoundéré345,148
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2649 Buea222,996
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3214 Guider187,887
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bertoua 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 Bertoua 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