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Buulo Mareer, 
Somalia
141,522 people lived in Buulo Mareer in 2025. It is the 4305th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Somalia.
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 Buulo Mareer's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Buulo Mareer grew
For every 10 people in Buulo Mareer in 2000, there were 27.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 301,205 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Buulo Mareer through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Buulo Mareer in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Somalia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 53 cities in Somalia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Mogadishu. The ringed dot in colour is Buulo Mareer; 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, Buulo Mareer covered 6 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.0 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Somalia
Its share of Somalia
Of every 1,000 people in Somalia in 2025, 7 lived in Buulo Mareer, which is 141,522 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Somalia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Buulo Mareer's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4275 Abu Huminus Egypt142,823
- 4282 Kribi Cameroon142,534
- 4293 Amrit Egypt142,164
- 4302 Kapiri Mposhi Zambia141,802
- 4305 Buulo Mareer141,522
- 4306 Leku Ethiopia141,486
- 4307 Lucapa Angola141,466
- 4324 Gurue Mozambique141,061
- 4339 Manazil Baradan Yemen140,682
In Somalia, 2025
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Buulo Mareer 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 Buulo Mareer 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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