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Cazombo, 
Angola
163,870 people lived in Cazombo in 2025. It is the 3696th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Angola.
Like every city on this site, Cazombo is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cazombo grew
Count 10 people in Cazombo in 2015 and the same count gives 21.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 335,154 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, 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
Cazombo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cazombo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cazombo is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Angola in 2025, 57 in all, led by Luanda, 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, Cazombo covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.4 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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, 4 lived in Cazombo, which is 163,870 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 Cazombo; 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
- 3670 Geita Tanzania165,000
- 3680 Iksan-si South Korea164,566
- 3687 Embu Kenya164,283
- 3695 Durame Ethiopia163,896
- 3696 Cazombo163,870
- 3712 Delduar Bangladesh163,064
- 3713 Kawm Ombo Egypt162,984
- 3721 Samarbagh Pakistan162,603
- 3726 Mihtarlam Afghanistan162,346
In Angola, 2025
- 1977 Matala294,087
- 2252 Dundo259,341
- 3224 Cafunfo187,253
- 3525 Luau172,177
- 3696 Cazombo163,870
- 3741 N'dalatando161,700
- 4307 Lucapa141,466
- 7734 Caxito80,602
- 8055 Sassalemba77,355
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 Cazombo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Cazombo 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