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Girawa, 
Ethiopia
The UN expects Girawa to count as a city from 2030, with 52,129 people. This is a projection: in 2025 it did not yet meet the UN's rule for a city.
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 Girawa's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Girawa grew
Where Girawa had 10 people in 2030, it had 80.4 in 2050.
On the UN's projection it will have 419,243 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. 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: 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
Girawa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Girawa 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). Girawa 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, Girawa covered 194 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2040, 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: 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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2050, 2 lived in Girawa, which is 419,243 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Ethiopia; the coloured squares live in Girawa. 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 Girawa 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 Girawa 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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