Fungurume, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Fungurume in 2005, there were 34.2 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 592,791 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.

How to read this: every dot is one of the 223 cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kinshasa. The ringed dot in colour is Fungurume; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Fungurume covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.7 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 3 lived in Fungurume, which is 298,713 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Fungurume. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 1924 Semey Kazakhstan298,847
2. 1925 Toulon France298,777
3. 1926 Gold Coast Australia298,750
4. 1927 Novokuznetsk Russia298,733
5. 1928 Fungurume298,713
6. 1930 Asahikawa Japan298,481
7. 1931 Baochi China298,433
8. 1932 Bojonegoro Indonesia298,285
9. 1934 Arlington Heights United States298,081

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 1653 Ngandajika345,996
2. 1784 Mulongo321,881
3. 1791 Ilebo321,392
4. 1859 Kindu309,727
5. 1928 Fungurume298,713
6. 1973 Kasumbalesa294,623
7. 1985 Kasaji292,523
8. 2079 Mweka279,312
9. 2164 Kabinda269,115

How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.

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The figures for Fungurume are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Fungurume 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