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Ebolowa, 
Cameroon
173,565 people lived in Ebolowa in 2025. It is the 3495th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Cameroon.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ebolowa governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ebolowa grew
Count 10 people in Ebolowa in 1975 and the same count gives 29.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 420,309 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Ebolowa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ebolowa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Cameroon in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Yaoundé. The ringed dot in colour is Ebolowa; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ebolowa covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.7 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 1,000 people in Cameroon in 2025, 6 lived in Ebolowa, which is 173,565 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Cameroon, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ebolowa's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3434 Layyah Pakistan176,125
- 3451 Pingtung City Taiwan175,377
- 3459 Kitenge Democratic Republic of the Congo174,943
- 3485 Bukoba Tanzania173,889
- 3495 Ebolowa173,565
- 3513 Gujar Khan Pakistan172,682
- 3525 Luau Angola172,177
- 3528 Anlong Veng Cambodia172,053
- 3531 Zhanaozen Kazakhstan171,827
In Cameroon, 2025
- 2649 Buea222,996
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3214 Guider187,887
- 3422 Nkongsamba176,511
- 3495 Ebolowa173,565
- 4282 Kribi142,534
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 Ebolowa 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 Ebolowa 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