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Bugama, 
Nigeria
299,022 people lived in Bugama in 2025. It is the 1923rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 70th largest in Nigeria.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Bugama 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 Bugama grew
Where Bugama had 10 people in 1975, it had 28.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 525,078 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Bugama through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bugama in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nigeria and its 457 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lagos). Bugama is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bugama covered 10 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.8 km² of it.
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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Bugama, which is 299,022 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bugama's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1919 Bukittinggi Indonesia299,353
- 1920 Saransk Russia299,262
- 1921 Sorong Indonesia299,181
- 1922 Yongcheng China299,180
- 1923 Bugama299,022
- 1924 Semey Kazakhstan298,847
- 1925 Toulon France298,777
- 1926 Gold Coast Australia298,750
- 1927 Novokuznetsk Russia298,733
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1818 Sapele315,614
- 1874 Ughelli307,005
- 1900 Owo301,931
- 1907 Ado300,622
- 1923 Bugama299,022
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi296,331
- 2007 Okrika289,429
- 2053 Awka283,069
- 2064 Ikirun281,875
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 Bugama 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 Bugama 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