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Boditi, 
Ethiopia
123,992 people lived in Boditi in 2025. It is the 4936th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 65th largest in Ethiopia.
Like every city on this site, Boditi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Boditi grew
Where Boditi had 10 people in 1975, it had 22.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 424,804 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Boditi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Boditi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Boditi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. 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 2025, Boditi covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.7 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people have grown by 35%.
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 Boditi, which is 123,992 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 Boditi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 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
- 5067 Yirga Cheffe121,109
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 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
- 6060 Karamile101,975
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 Boditi 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 Boditi 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