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Daura, 
Nigeria
369,916 people lived in Daura in 2025. It is the 1543rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 59th largest in Nigeria.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Daura grew
Count 10 people in Daura in 1975 and the same count gives 25 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 522,468 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Daura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Daura in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Daura is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Nigeria in 2025, 457 in all, led by Lagos, 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, Daura covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.1 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 2 lived in Daura, which is 369,916 people.
How to read this: shrink Nigeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Daura; 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
- 1539 Zanjan Iran370,993
- 1540 Muridke Pakistan370,563
- 1541 Dewas India370,472
- 1542 Al-Manshah Egypt370,283
- 1543 Daura369,916
- 1544 Qarchak Iran369,782
- 1545 Xuancheng China369,529
- 1546 Brest Belarus369,414
- 1547 Campina Grande Brazil369,184
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1496 KUNDULUN380,118
- 1506 Gamboru376,374
- 1531 Abonnema372,654
- 1535 Oyigbo371,913
- 1543 Daura369,916
- 1556 Gboko367,407
- 1690 Ikere-Ekiti338,367
- 1708 Bonny335,542
- 1721 Gwagwalada333,464
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 Daura 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 Daura 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