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Dutse, 
Nigeria
197,314 people lived in Dutse in 2025. It is the 3032nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 107th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Dutse 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 Dutse grew
For every 10 people in Dutse in 1990, there were 29.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 308,684 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Dutse through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dutse in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dutse 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, Dutse covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.7 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 6.1 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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, 1 lived in Dutse, which is 197,314 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Dutse's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3014 Tabora Tanzania198,557
- 3015 Kasangulu Democratic Republic of the Congo198,467
- 3018 Gitega Burundi198,363
- 3025 Unaizah Saudi Arabia197,665
- 3032 Dutse197,314
- 3031 Oltiariq Uzbekistan197,314
- 3035 Gulu Uganda197,090
- 3036 Dilolo Democratic Republic of the Congo197,075
- 3039 Mian Channu Pakistan196,976
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2789 Auchi212,634
- 2861 Uromi208,157
- 2971 Afikpo201,084
- 2981 Omoku200,802
- 3032 Dutse197,314
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye189,841
- 3209 Amassoma188,265
- 3278 Akugba183,921
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa166,817
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 Dutse are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Dutse 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