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Karamile, 
Ethiopia
101,975 people lived in Karamile in 2025. It is the 6060th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 86th largest in Ethiopia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Karamile governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Karamile grew
Where Karamile had 10 people in 2000, it had 17.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,244 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. 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: 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Karamile through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Karamile in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Karamile is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ethiopia in 2025, 259 in all, led by Addis Ababa, 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, Karamile covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.8 km² of it.
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 100 people in Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 1 lived in Karamile, which is 101,975 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ethiopia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Karamile's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 5649 Baghlan Afghanistan109,385
- 5670 Ghazni Afghanistan109,080
- 5849 Bhuapur Bangladesh105,501
- 5978 Busisi Democratic Republic of the Congo103,613
- 6060 Karamile101,975
- 6225 Cuamba Mozambique99,179
- 6478 Gogi95,403
- 6672 Kipese Democratic Republic of the Congo92,786
- 6688 Fatehpur India92,631
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 4936 Boditi123,992
- 5067 Yirga Cheffe121,109
- 5114 Chucko120,065
- 5474 Irba112,673
- 6060 Karamile101,975
- 6478 Gogi95,403
- 7454 Aweday83,488
- 8905 Wenago69,703
- 9118 Chelenko67,991
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Karamile 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 Karamile 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