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Eket, 
Nigeria
270,603 people lived in Eket in 2025. It is the 2151st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 77th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Eket 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 Eket grew
For every 10 people in Eket in 1975, there were 44.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 510,479 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Eket through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Eket in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Eket 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, Eket covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 4.4 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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Eket, which is 270,603 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 Eket's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2143 Thakurgaon Bangladesh271,454
- 2148 Kimberley South Africa271,078
- 2149 Jind India270,881
- 2150 Hassan India270,626
- 2151 Eket270,603
- 2152 Nagano Japan270,476
- 2153 Saint-Louis Senegal270,413
- 2155 Ambano Madagascar270,357
- 2156 Kapoeta South Sudan270,167
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2053 Awka283,069
- 2064 Ikirun281,875
- 2095 Iwo277,101
- 2121 Magboro273,818
- 2151 Eket270,603
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo269,742
- 2178 Lafia267,580
- 2180 Agbor267,341
- 2218 Jalingo262,796
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 Eket 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 Eket 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