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Cuito, 
Angola
689,795 people lived in Cuito in 2025. It is the 781st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th 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 Cuito'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 Cuito grew
Where Cuito had 10 people in 1980, it had 124.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 778,235 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. 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: 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
Cuito through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cuito in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cuito 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, Cuito covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 12.4 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, 2 lived in Cuito, which is 689,795 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 Cuito; 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
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan693,373
- 778 Panvel India692,036
- 779 Chŏngjin North Korea690,409
- 780 Cheongju-si South Korea690,333
- 781 Cuito689,795
- 782 Sorocaba Brazil689,775
- 783 Zurich Switzerland689,657
- 784 Zhoukou China689,599
- 785 Fresno United States685,330
In Angola, 2025
- 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
- 1080 Saurimo514,728
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 Cuito 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 Cuito 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