Kambove, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Kambove had 10 people in 2000, it had 39.4 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 513,045 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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.

How to read this: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its 223 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kinshasa). Kambove is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Kambove covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.3 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 3.9 times as many.

How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.

Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Kambove, which is 242,939 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kambove's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2405 Ho Ghana243,211
2. 2407 Quiha Ethiopia243,110
3. 2408 Dapaong Togo242,985
4. 2409 Pokhariya Nepal242,966
5. 2410 Kambove242,939
6. 2412 Poltava Ukraine242,753
7. 2413 Gayara Iraq242,690
8. 2414 Khajauli India242,567
9. 2417 Kannauj India242,353

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2353 Lisala248,434
2. 2355 Demba248,191
3. 2360 Kipushi247,546
4. 2404 Kamituga243,261
5. 2410 Kambove242,939
6. 2421 Boma242,042
7. 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu236,056
8. 2554 Luputa230,128
9. 2728 Bumba216,429

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 Kambove are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Kambove 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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