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Gununew, 
Ethiopia
53,312 people lived in Gununew in 2025. It is the 11537th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 240th largest in Ethiopia.
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 Gununew grew
Gununew first appears on the UN's list in 2025, with 53,312 people.
On the UN's projection it will have 415,325 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045.
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
Gununew through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gununew in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 259 cities in Ethiopia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Addis Ababa. The ringed dot in colour is Gununew; 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, Gununew covered 7 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.6 km² of it.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in Ethiopia lived in Gununew in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 9376 Loutu Democratic Republic of the Congo66,056
- 9384 Tarail Bangladesh66,019
- 9869 Tokar Sudan62,788
- 10437 Osciot59,256
- 11537 Gununew53,312
In Ethiopia, 2025
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 Gununew are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2025 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 Gununew 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