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Dilla, 
Ethiopia
360,925 people lived in Dilla in 2025. It is the 1583rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Ethiopia.
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 Dilla's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dilla grew
Where Dilla had 10 people in 1975, it had 71.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 964,049 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Dilla through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dilla in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dilla is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ethiopia in 2025, 259 in all, led by Addis Ababa, 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, Dilla covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.9 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 6 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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 3 lived in Dilla, which is 360,925 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ethiopia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Dilla's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1579 London Canada362,006
- 1580 San Cristobal Venezuela361,969
- 1581 Hulan China361,540
- 1582 Vitsebsk Belarus361,484
- 1583 Dilla360,925
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
- 1585 Boa Vista Brazil360,361
- 1586 Fallujah Iraq359,695
- 1587 Grenoble France359,128
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 1250 Hawassa444,909
- 1257 Bishoftu442,776
- 1327 Jijiga422,225
- 1448 Gonder392,767
- 1583 Dilla360,925
- 1698 Jimma336,448
- 1876 Dessie306,979
- 1881 Mek'elē305,037
- 2012 Kombolcha288,941
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 Dilla 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 Dilla 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