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Evaton, 
South Africa
773,229 people lived in Evaton in 2025. It is the 688th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in South Africa.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Evaton grew
Count 10 people in Evaton in 1975 and the same count gives 26.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Evaton through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Evaton in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Africa · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 95 cities in South Africa in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Johannesburg. The ringed dot in colour is Evaton; 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, Evaton covered 125 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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 South Africa
Its share of South Africa
Of every 100 people in South Africa in 2025, 1 lived in Evaton, which is 773,229 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in South Africa, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Evaton's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 684 Bahawalpur Pakistan776,611
- 685 Kharagpur India776,133
- 686 Yueyang China775,434
- 687 Changshu China774,010
- 688 Evaton773,229
- 689 Amravati India771,610
- 690 Saratov Russia771,355
- 691 Chihuahua Mexico771,297
- 692 Cape Town India770,260
In South Africa, 2025
- 153 Durban3,177,927
- 273 Pretoria1,836,166
- 396 Klipgat1,300,816
- 398 Tembisa1,298,512
- 688 Evaton773,229
- 824 Gqeberha661,220
- 1056 Masetjhaba View522,402
- 1115 Bloemfontein496,295
- 1233 Polokwane451,786
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 Evaton 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 Evaton 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