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Ho, 
Ghana
243,211 people lived in Ho in 2025. It is the 2405th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Ghana.
Like every city on this site, Ho is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ho grew
Where Ho had 10 people in 1985, it had 46.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 369,466 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Ho through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ho in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ghana · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ghana and its 58 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Accra). Ho 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, Ho covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.5 times its size, and its people are 4.6 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Ghana
Its share of Ghana
Of every 1,000 people in Ghana in 2025, 7 lived in Ho, which is 243,211 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ghana, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ho's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2398 El Senbellawein Egypt243,779
- 2400 Sawai Madhopur India243,561
- 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
- 2404 Kamituga Democratic Republic of the Congo243,261
- 2405 Ho243,211
- 2407 Quiha Ethiopia243,110
- 2408 Dapaong Togo242,985
- 2409 Pokhariya Nepal242,966
- 2410 Kambove Democratic Republic of the Congo242,939
In Ghana, 2025
- 830 Tamale654,868
- 2066 Cape Coast281,579
- 2364 Koforidua246,770
- 2371 Obuasi245,920
- 2405 Ho243,211
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 Ho are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Ho 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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