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Bukalasi, 
Uganda
345,288 people lived in Bukalasi in 2025. It is the 1657th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Uganda.
Like every city on this site, Bukalasi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bukalasi grew
Count 10 people in Bukalasi in 2010 and the same count gives 61.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 930,994 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Bukalasi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bukalasi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Uganda · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Uganda and its 27 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kampala). Bukalasi 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, Bukalasi covered 151 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.6 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 6.2 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 Uganda
Its share of Uganda
Of every 1,000 people in Uganda in 2025, 7 lived in Bukalasi, which is 345,288 people.
How to read this: shrink Uganda to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Bukalasi; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1653 Ngandajika Democratic Republic of the Congo345,996
- 1654 Bo Sierra Leone345,988
- 1655 Safi Morocco345,865
- 1656 Ras Al Khaimah United Arab Emirates345,621
- 1657 Bukalasi345,288
- 1658 Ngaoundéré Cameroon345,148
- 1659 Jamalpur Bangladesh345,132
- 1660 Dili Timor-Leste345,038
- 1661 Guankou China344,468
In Uganda, 2025
- 85 Kampala4,880,943
- 1495 Mbale City380,565
- 1657 Bukalasi345,288
- 2227 Jinja261,604
- 2536 Mbarara231,926
- 2599 Arua226,390
- 3035 Gulu197,090
- 3796 Masaka159,564
- 4221 Buligenyi144,692
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 Bukalasi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Bukalasi 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