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Jalingo, 
Nigeria
262,796 people lived in Jalingo in 2025. It is the 2218th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 81st largest in Nigeria.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Jalingo 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 Jalingo grew
Where Jalingo had 10 people in 1980, it had 34.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 319,878 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Jalingo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jalingo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nigeria and its 457 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lagos). Jalingo 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, Jalingo covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 70 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4 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 Jalingo, which is 262,796 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Jalingo. 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
- 2206 Kaunas Lithuania264,162
- 2209 Arsi Negelle Ethiopia264,039
- 2215 Firozpur India263,304
- 2216 Pali India263,275
- 2218 Jalingo262,796
- 2219 Mubi262,651
- 2220 Ulan-Ude Russia262,433
- 2221 Palwal India262,399
- 2222 Urgench Uzbekistan262,377
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2151 Eket270,603
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo269,742
- 2178 Lafia267,580
- 2180 Agbor267,341
- 2218 Jalingo262,796
- 2219 Mubi262,651
- 2233 Agbara261,298
- 2259 Abua258,314
- 2270 Otukpo257,334
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 Jalingo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Jalingo 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