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Kaolack, 
Senegal
412,347 people lived in Kaolack in 2025. It is the 1365th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Senegal.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kaolack governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kaolack grew
Count 10 people in Kaolack in 1975 and the same count gives 28.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 573,129 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kaolack through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kaolack in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Senegal · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kaolack is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Senegal in 2025, 26 in all, led by Dakar, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kaolack covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 90%, and its people are 2.8 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 100 people in Senegal
Its share of Senegal
Of every 100 people in Senegal in 2025, 2 lived in Kaolack, which is 412,347 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Senegal; the coloured squares live in Kaolack. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1361 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea413,223
- 1362 Hathras India413,122
- 1363 Ciudad del Este Paraguay412,725
- 1364 Sanhur Egypt412,618
- 1365 Kaolack412,347
- 1366 Jixi China412,341
- 1367 Hamhung North Korea412,277
- 1368 Americana Brazil412,133
- 1369 Elazığ Türkiye411,268
In Senegal, 2025
- 120 Dakar3,852,475
- 446 Touba1,151,552
- 992 M'bour553,170
- 1059 Thiès521,678
- 1365 Kaolack412,347
- 2057 Ziguinchor282,751
- 2153 Saint-Louis270,413
- 2430 Tambacounda241,254
- 2461 Diourbel237,795
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kaolack 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 Kaolack 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