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Bohicon, 
Benin
293,833 people lived in Bohicon in 2025. It is the 1981st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Benin.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bohicon grew
Count 10 people in Bohicon in 1985 and the same count gives 54.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 462,020 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Bohicon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bohicon in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Benin · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 29 cities in Benin in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Cotonou. The ringed dot in colour is Bohicon; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bohicon covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 72 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.6 times its size, and its people are 5.4 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 Benin
Its share of Benin
Of every 100 people in Benin in 2025, 2 lived in Bohicon, which is 293,833 people.
How to read this: shrink Benin to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Bohicon; 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
- 1977 Matala Angola294,087
- 1978 Chhindwara India293,950
- 1979 Anlu China293,857
- 1980 Shahrisabz Uzbekistan293,849
- 1981 Bohicon293,833
- 1982 San-Pédro Côte d’Ivoire293,698
- 1983 Lausanne Switzerland293,509
- 1984 Hazro Pakistan293,506
- 1985 Kasaji Democratic Republic of the Congo292,523
In Benin, 2025
- 198 Cotonou2,506,489
- 642 Porto-Novo818,617
- 1433 Parakou395,528
- 1981 Bohicon293,833
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 Bohicon are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Bohicon 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