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Borama, 
Somalia
363,753 people lived in Borama in 2025. It is the 1571st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Somalia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Borama governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Borama grew
For every 10 people in Borama in 1975, there were 28.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 685,270 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Borama through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Borama in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Somalia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Borama is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Somalia in 2025, 53 in all, led by Mogadishu, 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, Borama covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.4 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Somalia
Its share of Somalia
Of every 100 people in Somalia in 2025, 2 lived in Borama, which is 363,753 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Somalia, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Borama's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1567 Dusuq Egypt366,123
- 1568 Colina de Laranjeiras Brazil365,960
- 1569 Mission Viejo United States365,221
- 1570 Yavatmal India363,908
- 1571 Borama363,753
- 1572 Vinnytsia Ukraine363,466
- 1573 Belgorod Russia363,411
- 1574 Liyang China363,285
- 1575 Xingping China363,206
In Somalia, 2025
- 310 Hargeisa1,593,542
- 1207 Kismayo461,302
- 1310 Burao427,013
- 1339 Baidoa420,281
- 1571 Borama363,753
- 1823 Wanlaweyn314,824
- 1915 Merca299,906
- 1992 Beledweyne291,630
- 2273 Jowhar257,210
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 Borama 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 Borama 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