Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Kamina in 1985, there were 134.8 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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: Kamina 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, Kamina covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 13.5 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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 6 lived in Kamina, which is 724,982 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 Kamina's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 737 Zhumadian China727,923
2. 738 Al Ahsa Saudi Arabia725,760
3. 739 Suqian China725,070
4. 740 Louhajang Bangladesh725,057
5. 741 Kamina724,982
6. 742 Bouaké Côte d’Ivoire724,691
7. 743 Meknes Morocco722,852
8. 744 Yingxia China719,432
9. 745 Gulin China718,364

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 550 Bukavu948,948
2. 574 Kisangani900,330
3. 654 Goma809,601
4. 704 Kalemie758,379
5. 741 Kamina724,982
6. 809 Likasi673,034
7. 941 Bunia582,792
8. 1003 Kikwit549,102
9. 1072 Manono517,304

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.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · All the world's cities

The figures for Kamina are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Kamina 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