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Bule Hora, 
Ethiopia
267,051 people lived in Bule Hora in 2025. It is the 2185th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Ethiopia.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bule Hora grew
Count 10 people in Bule Hora in 1975 and the same count gives 33.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 411,985 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Bule Hora through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bule Hora in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 259 cities in Ethiopia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Addis Ababa. The ringed dot in colour is Bule Hora; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bule Hora covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.6 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 91%.
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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 2 lived in Bule Hora, which is 267,051 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Ethiopia; the coloured squares live in Bule Hora. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2176 Bellevue United States267,696
- 2177 Kabwe Zambia267,618
- 2178 Lafia Nigeria267,580
- 2180 Agbor Nigeria267,341
- 2185 Bule Hora267,051
- 2186 Bydgoszcz Poland266,908
- 2187 Yaguang China266,899
- 2188 Bihpur India266,585
- 2189 Bijnor India266,240
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 1698 Jimma336,448
- 1876 Dessie306,979
- 1881 Mek'elē305,037
- 2012 Kombolcha288,941
- 2185 Bule Hora267,051
- 2209 Arsi Negelle264,039
- 2366 Irgalem246,701
- 2407 Quiha243,110
- 2472 Bonsa Bota237,061
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 Bule Hora 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 Bule Hora 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