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Enugu-Ezike, 
Nigeria
79,250 people lived in Enugu-Ezike in 2025. It is the 7870th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 290th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Enugu-Ezike is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Enugu-Ezike grew
Where Enugu-Ezike had 10 people in 2010, it had 14.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 400,120 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 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Enugu-Ezike through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Enugu-Ezike in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Enugu-Ezike 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, Enugu-Ezike covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 61%, and its people have grown by 48%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in Nigeria lived in Enugu-Ezike in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 7666 Bandar Seri Bentan Indonesia81,340
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah Yemen80,686
- 7734 Caxito Angola80,602
- 7767 Mutubis Egypt80,283
- 7870 Enugu-Ezike79,250
- 8055 Sassalemba Angola77,355
- 8155 Harichand Pakistan76,461
- 8197 Pattan India75,975
- 8410 Jolo Philippines74,210
In Nigeria, 2025
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa166,817
- 4091 Bori148,370
- 4389 Rubuchi138,912
- 4522 Okposi134,677
- 7870 Enugu-Ezike79,250
- 8887 Ikot Ide69,806
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 Enugu-Ezike are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Enugu-Ezike 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