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Dodoma, 
Tanzania
269,047 people lived in Dodoma in 2025. It is the 2166th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Tanzania, where it is the capital.
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 Dodoma'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 Dodoma grew
Count 10 people in Dodoma in 1985 and the same count gives 45.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 462,369 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Dodoma through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dodoma in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Tanzania · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dodoma is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Tanzania in 2025, 45 in all, led by Dar es Salaam, 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, Dodoma covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 81 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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 Tanzania
Its share of Tanzania
Of every 1,000 people in Tanzania in 2025, 4 lived in Dodoma, which is 269,047 people.
How to read this: shrink Tanzania to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Dodoma; 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
- 2161 Dadu Pakistan269,400
- 2162 Wuqing China269,223
- 2164 Kabinda Democratic Republic of the Congo269,115
- 2165 Beldanga India269,051
- 2166 Dodoma269,047
- 2167 Patahi India268,862
- 2168 Vologda Russia268,759
- 2169 Constanța Romania268,757
- 2170 Chhatarpur India268,598
In Tanzania, 2025
- 1205 Morogoro461,634
- 1677 Kigoma340,483
- 1861 Moshi309,202
- 1956 Tanga296,202
- 2166 Dodoma269,047
- 2641 Songea223,567
- 2959 Iringa201,525
- 3014 Tabora198,557
- 3121 Musoma192,622
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 Dodoma are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Dodoma 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