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Bonsa Bota, 
Ethiopia
237,061 people lived in Bonsa Bota in 2025. It is the 2472nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Ethiopia.
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 Bonsa Bota grew
For every 10 people in Bonsa Bota in 1975, there were 32.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 452,749 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: 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
Bonsa Bota through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bonsa Bota in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bonsa Bota 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, Bonsa Bota covered 19 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.2 km² of it. That is 5 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres.
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 2025, 2 lived in Bonsa Bota, which is 237,061 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Ethiopia; the coloured squares live in Bonsa Bota. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2465 Dhaka India237,385
- 2469 Manikganj Bangladesh237,163
- 2470 Lakhnaur India237,133
- 2471 Raqqa Syria237,106
- 2472 Bonsa Bota237,061
- 2478 Fomboni Comoros236,750
- 2479 Ha'il Saudi Arabia236,744
- 2482 Modanganj India236,293
- 2483 Amarpur India236,273
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 2185 Bule Hora267,051
- 2209 Arsi Negelle264,039
- 2366 Irgalem246,701
- 2407 Quiha243,110
- 2472 Bonsa Bota237,061
- 2610 Harar225,677
- 2612 Naqamte225,503
- 2661 Hossana221,895
- 2737 Asella215,594
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 Bonsa Bota 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 Bonsa Bota 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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