Kabondo-Dianda, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Kabondo-Dianda had 10 people in 2010, it had 33.9 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 407,548 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.

How to read this: Kabondo-Dianda is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 223 in all, led by Kinshasa, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.

In 2025, Kabondo-Dianda covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.7 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Kabondo-Dianda, which is 211,167 people.

How to read this: shrink the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kabondo-Dianda; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2799 Darauli India211,985
2. 2801 Koliwar India211,825
3. 2807 Dashoguz Turkmenistan211,569
4. 2808 Wuxue China211,544
5. 2817 Kabondo-Dianda211,167
6. 2824 Madaripur Bangladesh210,635
7. 2827 Ennerdale South Africa210,428
8. 2835 Blitta-Gare Togo209,755
9. 2843 Depalpur Pakistan209,417

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2734 Kahemba215,825
2. 2736 Kabongo215,612
3. 2765 Rutshuru214,158
4. 2797 Bandundu212,016
5. 2817 Kabondo-Dianda211,167
6. 2897 Luena205,691
7. 2908 Mongbwalu205,051
8. 2996 Musangala199,847
9. 3015 Kasangulu198,467

How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.

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The figures for Kabondo-Dianda are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Kabondo-Dianda 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