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Cuamba, 
Mozambique
99,179 people lived in Cuamba in 2025. It is the 6225th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th largest in Mozambique.
Like every city on this site, Cuamba 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 Cuamba grew
Count 10 people in Cuamba in 2020 and the same count gives 14.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,221 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 2020, 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
Cuamba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cuamba 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 Cuamba; 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, Cuamba covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.0 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 25%, and its people have grown by 45%.
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 Mozambique
Its share of Mozambique
Of every 1,000 people in Mozambique in 2025, 3 lived in Cuamba, which is 99,179 people.
How to read this: shrink Mozambique to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Cuamba; 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
- 5670 Ghazni Afghanistan109,080
- 5849 Bhuapur Bangladesh105,501
- 5978 Busisi Democratic Republic of the Congo103,613
- 6060 Karamile Ethiopia101,975
- 6225 Cuamba99,179
- 6478 Gogi Ethiopia95,403
- 6672 Kipese Democratic Republic of the Congo92,786
- 6688 Fatehpur India92,631
- 6818 Bokhtar Tajikistan90,998
In Mozambique, 2025
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 Cuamba are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Cuamba 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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