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Gitega, 
Burundi
198,363 people lived in Gitega in 2025. It is the 3018th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Burundi, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Gitega 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 Gitega grew
Count 10 people in Gitega in 1975 and the same count gives 34.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 324,903 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Gitega through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gitega in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Burundi · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Gitega is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Burundi in 2025, 12 in all, led by Bujumbura, 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, Gitega covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Burundi
Its share of Burundi
Of every 100 people in Burundi in 2025, 1 lived in Gitega, which is 198,363 people.
How to read this: shrink Burundi to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Gitega; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2992 Lincoln Park United States200,040
- 2996 Musangala Democratic Republic of the Congo199,847
- 3014 Tabora Tanzania198,557
- 3015 Kasangulu Democratic Republic of the Congo198,467
- 3018 Gitega198,363
- 3025 Unaizah Saudi Arabia197,665
- 3032 Dutse Nigeria197,314
- 3031 Oltiariq Uzbekistan197,314
- 3035 Gulu Uganda197,090
In Burundi, 2025
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 Gitega 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 Gitega 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