Kamituga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Count 10 people in Kamituga in 1975 and the same count gives 42.8 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 383,137 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.

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: 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 Kamituga; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Kamituga covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.2 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 times its size, and its people have grown by 48%.

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 Kamituga, which is 243,261 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 Kamituga; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2397 Qena Egypt243,801
2. 2398 El Senbellawein Egypt243,779
3. 2400 Sawai Madhopur India243,561
4. 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
5. 2404 Kamituga243,261
6. 2405 Ho Ghana243,211
7. 2407 Quiha Ethiopia243,110
8. 2408 Dapaong Togo242,985
9. 2409 Pokhariya Nepal242,966

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2279 Kilwa256,165
2. 2353 Lisala248,434
3. 2355 Demba248,191
4. 2360 Kipushi247,546
5. 2404 Kamituga243,261
6. 2410 Kambove242,939
7. 2421 Boma242,042
8. 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu236,056
9. 2554 Luputa230,128

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 Kamituga are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Kamituga 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