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Chimoio, 
Mozambique
453,521 people lived in Chimoio in 2025. It is the 1228th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Mozambique.
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 Chimoio's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chimoio grew
Count 10 people in Chimoio in 1980 and the same count gives 78.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 688,483 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Chimoio through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chimoio in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mozambique · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 48 cities in Mozambique in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Maputo. The ringed dot in colour is Chimoio; 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, Chimoio covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 7.9 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 Mozambique
Its share of Mozambique
Of every 100 people in Mozambique in 2025, 1 lived in Chimoio, which is 453,521 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Mozambique, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Chimoio's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
- 1225 Sadiqabad Pakistan454,465
- 1226 Surrey Canada454,230
- 1227 Nantes France453,523
- 1228 Chimoio453,521
- 1229 Catania Italy453,376
- 1230 Shashamane Ethiopia452,945
- 1231 Maturin Venezuela452,835
- 1232 Jiangyang China452,500
In Mozambique, 2025
- 154 Maputo3,166,328
- 584 Nampula885,780
- 892 Beira608,097
- 1228 Chimoio453,521
- 1271 Quelimane438,554
- 1334 Tete421,174
- 1975 Lichinga294,317
- 2122 Nacala273,732
- 2232 Pemba261,380
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Chimoio are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Chimoio 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