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Dapaong, 
Togo
242,985 people lived in Dapaong in 2025. It is the 2408th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Togo.
Like every city on this site, Dapaong 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 Dapaong grew
For every 10 people in Dapaong in 1975, there were 39.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 373,538 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Dapaong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dapaong in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Togo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Togo and its 17 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lomé). Dapaong is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Dapaong covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Togo
Its share of Togo
Of every 100 people in Togo in 2025, 2 lived in Dapaong, which is 242,985 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Togo, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Dapaong's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
- 2404 Kamituga Democratic Republic of the Congo243,261
- 2405 Ho Ghana243,211
- 2407 Quiha Ethiopia243,110
- 2408 Dapaong242,985
- 2409 Pokhariya Nepal242,966
- 2410 Kambove Democratic Republic of the Congo242,939
- 2412 Poltava Ukraine242,753
- 2413 Gayara Iraq242,690
In Togo, 2025
- 204 Lomé2,415,011
- 2408 Dapaong242,985
- 2835 Blitta-Gare209,755
- 3269 Atakpamé184,404
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 Dapaong are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Dapaong 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