Kasaji, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Kasaji in 2000, there were 47.6 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 508,082 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. 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: 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 Kasaji; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Kasaji covered 19 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.8 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 65%, and its people are 4.8 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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 3 lived in Kasaji, which is 292,523 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Kasaji. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 1981 Bohicon Benin293,833
2. 1982 San-Pédro Côte d’Ivoire293,698
3. 1983 Lausanne Switzerland293,509
4. 1984 Hazro Pakistan293,506
5. 1985 Kasaji292,523
6. 1986 Kanyamazane South Africa292,211
7. 1987 Matara Sri Lanka292,019
8. 1988 Bhadrak India291,997
9. 1990 Bayannur China291,787

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 1791 Ilebo321,392
2. 1859 Kindu309,727
3. 1928 Fungurume298,713
4. 1973 Kasumbalesa294,623
5. 1985 Kasaji292,523
6. 2079 Mweka279,312
7. 2164 Kabinda269,115
8. 2279 Kilwa256,165
9. 2353 Lisala248,434

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 Kasaji 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 Kasaji 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