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Ikirun, 
Nigeria
281,875 people lived in Ikirun in 2025. It is the 2064th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 74th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Ikirun is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ikirun grew
Where Ikirun had 10 people in 1975, it had 33.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 411,599 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Ikirun through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ikirun in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Ikirun; 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, Ikirun covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Ikirun, which is 281,875 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Ikirun. 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
- 2060 Al Majidi Yemen282,395
- 2061 Hamamatsu Japan282,084
- 2062 Suizhou China282,058
- 2063 Moundou Chad281,943
- 2064 Ikirun281,875
- 2065 Heroica Nogales Mexico281,580
- 2066 Cape Coast Ghana281,579
- 2068 Batala India281,142
- 2071 Shankarpur India280,248
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1923 Bugama299,022
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi296,331
- 2007 Okrika289,429
- 2053 Awka283,069
- 2064 Ikirun281,875
- 2095 Iwo277,101
- 2121 Magboro273,818
- 2151 Eket270,603
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo269,742
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 Ikirun 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 Ikirun 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