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Cafunfo, 
Angola
187,253 people lived in Cafunfo in 2025. It is the 3224th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Angola.
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 Cafunfo grew
Where Cafunfo had 10 people in 2000, it had 26.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 388,822 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. 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: 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
Cafunfo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cafunfo 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 Cafunfo; 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, Cafunfo covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.2 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 60%, and its people are 2.7 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 Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 1,000 people in Angola in 2025, 5 lived in Cafunfo, which is 187,253 people.
How to read this: shrink Angola to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Cafunfo; 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
- 3209 Amassoma Nigeria188,265
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan Sudan188,089
- 3214 Guider Cameroon187,887
- 3217 Domariaganj India187,658
- 3224 Cafunfo187,253
- 3232 Jayapura Indonesia186,856
- 3238 Bangkinang Indonesia186,431
- 3241 Balcad Somalia186,328
- 3247 Meja Road India186,137
In Angola, 2025
- 1714 M'banza Congo334,203
- 1917 Menongue299,802
- 1977 Matala294,087
- 2252 Dundo259,341
- 3224 Cafunfo187,253
- 3525 Luau172,177
- 3696 Cazombo163,870
- 3741 N'dalatando161,700
- 4307 Lucapa141,466
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 Cafunfo 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 Cafunfo 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