Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Kasaï-Oriental had 10 people in 1975, it had 40.5 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 5.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes five million people between 2045 and 2050.

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.

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). Kasaï-Oriental is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Kasaï-Oriental covered 146 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 49%, and its people are 4 times as many.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 3 lived in Kasaï-Oriental, which is 3.6 million people.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Kasaï-Oriental. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 126 Brazzaville Republic of the Congo3,656,322
2. 127 Melbourne Australia3,639,893
3. 128 Qingdao China3,616,657
4. 129 Ankara Türkiye3,612,251
5. 130 Kasaï-Oriental3,605,738
6. 131 Karaj Iran3,598,661
7. 132 Berlin Germany3,560,908
8. 133 Savar Bangladesh3,557,381
9. 134 Peshawar Pakistan3,554,423

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 30 Kinshasa10,943,641
2. 130 Kasaï-Oriental3,605,738
3. 176 Lubumbashi2,832,853
4. 258 Beni1,923,700
5. 336 Kananga1,504,370
6. 487 Tshikapa1,054,686
7. 550 Bukavu948,948
8. 574 Kisangani900,330
9. 654 Goma809,601

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 Kasaï-Oriental 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 Kasaï-Oriental 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