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Buligenyi, 
Uganda
144,692 people lived in Buligenyi in 2025. It is the 4221st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Uganda.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Buligenyi governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Buligenyi grew
Buligenyi first appears on the UN's list in 2025, with 144,692 people.
On the UN's projection it will have 563,608 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Buligenyi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Buligenyi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Uganda · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Buligenyi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Uganda in 2025, 27 in all, led by Kampala, 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, Buligenyi covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres.
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 Uganda
Its share of Uganda
Of every 1,000 people in Uganda in 2025, 3 lived in Buligenyi, which is 144,692 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 Buligenyi; 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
- 4117 Mukanga Democratic Republic of the Congo147,526
- 4118 Baffa Pakistan147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah Pakistan147,308
- 4208 Bontang Indonesia145,118
- 4221 Buligenyi144,692
- 4275 Abu Huminus Egypt142,823
- 4282 Kribi Cameroon142,534
- 4293 Amrit Egypt142,164
- 4302 Kapiri Mposhi Zambia141,802
In Uganda, 2025
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 Buligenyi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2025 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 Buligenyi 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 →
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