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Cabinda, 
Angola
1,157,345 people lived in Cabinda in 2025. It is the 440th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Angola.
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 Cabinda's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cabinda grew
For every 10 people in Cabinda in 1990, there were 204.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Cabinda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cabinda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 57 cities in Angola in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Luanda. The ringed dot in colour is Cabinda; 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, Cabinda covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 20.5 times as many.
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 Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 100 people in Angola in 2025, 3 lived in Cabinda, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: shrink Angola to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Cabinda; 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
- 436 Padang Indonesia1,184,342
- 437 Shymkent Kazakhstan1,184,337
- 438 Bandar Lampung Indonesia1,184,054
- 439 Yueqing China1,160,214
- 440 Cabinda1,157,345
- 441 Serrekunda Gambia1,156,903
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra Egypt1,156,501
- 443 Jammu India1,154,466
- 444 Kirkuk Iraq1,153,160
In Angola, 2025
- 28 Luanda11,370,127
- 400 Lubango1,280,986
- 440 Cabinda1,157,345
- 532 Malanje973,086
- 752 Luena714,289
- 781 Cuito689,795
- 853 Huambo634,669
- 926 Benguela589,289
- 1077 Lobito516,153
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 Cabinda are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Cabinda 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