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Brikama, 
Gambia
184,321 people lived in Brikama in 2025. It is the 3271st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in the Gambia.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Brikama's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Brikama grew
Where Brikama had 10 people in 2000, it had 28.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 304,948 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Brikama through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Brikama in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Gambia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brikama is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Gambia in 2025, 4 in all, led by Serrekunda, 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, Brikama covered 29 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people are 2.9 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 the Gambia
Its share of the Gambia
Of every 100 people in the Gambia in 2025, 7 lived in Brikama, which is 184,321 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in the Gambia, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Brikama's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3249 Naivasha Kenya185,944
- 3255 Ruwa Zimbabwe185,224
- 3258 Biak Kota Indonesia184,918
- 3269 Atakpamé Togo184,404
- 3271 Brikama184,321
- 3278 Akugba Nigeria183,921
- 3287 Koudougou Burkina Faso183,409
- 3291 Afamolla Bangladesh183,242
- 3311 Sumbawanga Tanzania181,940
In the Gambia, 2025
- 441 Serrekunda1,156,903
- 3271 Brikama184,321
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 Brikama are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Brikama 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