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Gboko, 
Nigeria
367,407 people lived in Gboko in 2025. It is the 1556th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th largest in Nigeria.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Gboko governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Gboko grew
For every 10 people in Gboko in 1975, there were 27.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 461,126 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Gboko through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gboko in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Gboko; 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, Gboko covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.8 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 2 lived in Gboko, which is 367,407 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Gboko. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1552 Shihezi China367,883
- 1553 Plano United States367,716
- 1554 Godhra India367,633
- 1555 Xianyou China367,523
- 1556 Gboko367,407
- 1557 Riverside United States367,336
- 1558 Granada Spain367,226
- 1559 Gonaïves Haiti367,158
- 1560 Santa Fe Argentina366,960
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1506 Gamboru376,374
- 1531 Abonnema372,654
- 1535 Oyigbo371,913
- 1543 Daura369,916
- 1556 Gboko367,407
- 1690 Ikere-Ekiti338,367
- 1708 Bonny335,542
- 1721 Gwagwalada333,464
- 1736 Ikare330,941
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Gboko 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 Gboko 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