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Gurue, 
Mozambique
141,061 people lived in Gurue in 2025. It is the 4324th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Mozambique.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Gurue governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Gurue grew
Count 10 people in Gurue in 1995 and the same count gives 22.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 320,256 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 1995, 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
Gurue through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gurue in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mozambique · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mozambique and its 48 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Maputo). Gurue is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Gurue covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.4 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 54%.
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 Mozambique
Its share of Mozambique
Of every 1,000 people in Mozambique in 2025, 4 lived in Gurue, which is 141,061 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mozambique; the coloured squares live in Gurue. 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
- 4302 Kapiri Mposhi Zambia141,802
- 4305 Buulo Mareer Somalia141,522
- 4306 Leku Ethiopia141,486
- 4307 Lucapa Angola141,466
- 4324 Gurue141,061
- 4339 Manazil Baradan Yemen140,682
- 4351 Al Kifl Iraq140,343
- 4370 Haidarganj India139,637
- 4384 Kurgan Russia139,073
In Mozambique, 2025
- 2122 Nacala273,732
- 2232 Pemba261,380
- 2857 Xai-Xai208,703
- 3134 Mocuba191,635
- 4324 Gurue141,061
- 6225 Cuamba99,179
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Gurue are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Gurue 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