Kabongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Count 10 people in Kabongo in 2005 and the same count gives 30 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 356,239 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 2005, 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: every dot is one of the 223 cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kinshasa. The ringed dot in colour is Kabongo; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Kabongo covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.0 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 67%, and its people are 3 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 Kabongo, which is 215,612 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 Kabongo; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2717 Dinjway Egypt217,913
2. 2728 Bumba216,429
3. 2730 Vientiane Laos216,305
4. 2734 Kahemba215,825
5. 2736 Kabongo215,612
6. 2737 Asella Ethiopia215,594
7. 2743 Elelim Indonesia215,216
8. 2746 Manokwari Indonesia214,949
9. 2752 Baraut India214,706

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu236,056
2. 2554 Luputa230,128
3. 2728 Bumba216,429
4. 2734 Kahemba215,825
5. 2736 Kabongo215,612
6. 2765 Rutshuru214,158
7. 2797 Bandundu212,016
8. 2817 Kabondo-Dianda211,167
9. 2897 Luena205,691

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.

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The figures for Kabongo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Kabongo 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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