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Funtua, 
Nigeria
236,087 people lived in Funtua in 2025. It is the 2486th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 92nd largest in Nigeria.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Funtua's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Funtua grew
Where Funtua had 10 people in 1975, it had 38.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 323,979 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Funtua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Funtua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Funtua 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, Funtua covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 3.8 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Funtua, which is 236,087 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 Funtua's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2478 Fomboni Comoros236,750
- 2479 Ha'il Saudi Arabia236,744
- 2482 Modanganj India236,293
- 2483 Amarpur India236,273
- 2486 Funtua236,087
- 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu Democratic Republic of the Congo236,056
- 2489 Sinnuris Egypt235,984
- 2491 Bertoua Cameroon235,399
- 2494 Al-Hasakah Syria235,085
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
- 2352 Abak248,528
- 2431 Ore241,251
- 2486 Funtua236,087
- 2529 Biliri232,398
- 2531 Oke Iho232,348
- 2571 Jega228,584
- 2624 Ile Oluji224,781
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 Funtua 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 Funtua 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