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Gīmbīcho, 
Ethiopia
The UN expects Gīmbīcho to count as a city from 2030, with 65,722 people. This is a projection: in 2025 it did not yet meet the UN's rule for a city.
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 Gīmbīcho grew
Where Gīmbīcho had 10 people in 2030, it had 58.3 in 2050.
On the UN's projection it will have 382,857 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 2030, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Gīmbīcho through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gīmbīcho in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ethiopia and its 259 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Addis Ababa). Gīmbīcho is ringed, drawn at its 2030 size, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2050, Gīmbīcho covered 149 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.4 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2035, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2050, 2 lived in Gīmbīcho, which is 382,857 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Ethiopia; the coloured squares live in Gīmbīcho. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 59 Addis Ababa6,705,705
- 937 Adama584,854
- 1107 Bahir Dar498,735
- 1146 Dire Dawa483,674
- 1230 Shashamane452,945
- 1250 Hawassa444,909
- 1257 Bishoftu442,776
- 1327 Jijiga422,225
- 1448 Gonder392,767
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 Gīmbīcho are the UN's own, at five-year steps, every one of them projection, because the UN does not expect it to count as a city until 2030. 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 Gīmbīcho 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 →
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