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Bouaké, 
Côte d’Ivoire
724,691 people lived in Bouaké in 2025. It is the 742nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Côte d’Ivoire.
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 Bouaké grew
Where Bouaké had 10 people in 1975, it had 42.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 960,726 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Bouaké through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bouaké in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Côte d’Ivoire · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bouaké is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, 47 in all, led by Abidjan, 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, Bouaké covered 109 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 72%, and its people are 4.2 times as many.
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 Côte d’Ivoire
Its share of Côte d’Ivoire
Of every 100 people in Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, 2 lived in Bouaké, which is 724,691 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Côte d’Ivoire, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bouaké's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 738 Al Ahsa Saudi Arabia725,760
- 739 Suqian China725,070
- 740 Louhajang Bangladesh725,057
- 741 Kamina Democratic Republic of the Congo724,982
- 742 Bouaké724,691
- 743 Meknes Morocco722,852
- 744 Yingxia China719,432
- 745 Gulin China718,364
- 746 Patiala India718,308
In Côte d’Ivoire, 2025
- 60 Abidjan6,621,711
- 742 Bouaké724,691
- 1584 Daloa360,630
- 1591 Korhogo357,761
- 1982 San-Pédro293,698
- 2374 Yamoussoukro245,612
- 2543 Man230,997
- 2693 Gagnoa219,607
- 2933 Duekoue203,323
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 Bouaké 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 Bouaké 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