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Ikot Ide, 
Nigeria
69,806 people lived in Ikot Ide in 2025. It is the 8887th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 336th largest in Nigeria.
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 Ikot Ide grew
Ikot Ide first appears on the UN's list in 2025, with 69,806 people.
On the UN's projection it will have 376,353 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Ikot Ide through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ikot Ide 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 Ikot Ide; 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, Ikot Ide covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.6 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres.
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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in Nigeria lived in Ikot Ide in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 8155 Harichand Pakistan76,461
- 8197 Pattan India75,975
- 8410 Jolo Philippines74,210
- 8652 Walungu Democratic Republic of the Congo71,897
- 8887 Ikot Ide69,806
- 8905 Wenago Ethiopia69,703
- 9118 Chelenko Ethiopia67,991
- 9376 Loutu Democratic Republic of the Congo66,056
- 9384 Tarail Bangladesh66,019
In Nigeria, 2025
- 4091 Bori148,370
- 4389 Rubuchi138,912
- 4522 Okposi134,677
- 7870 Enugu-Ezike79,250
- 8887 Ikot Ide69,806
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 Ikot Ide 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 Ikot Ide 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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