Kasangulu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Kasangulu in 1980, there were 34.3 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 355,494 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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.

How to read this: Kasangulu is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 223 in all, led by Kinshasa, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.

In 2025, Kasangulu covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.0 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.

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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Kasangulu, which is 198,467 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 Kasangulu. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 2987 Makiivka Ukraine200,425
2. 2992 Lincoln Park United States200,040
3. 2996 Musangala199,847
4. 3014 Tabora Tanzania198,557
5. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
6. 3018 Gitega Burundi198,363
7. 3025 Unaizah Saudi Arabia197,665
8. 3032 Dutse Nigeria197,314
9. 3031 Oltiariq Uzbekistan197,314

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2817 Kabondo-Dianda211,167
2. 2897 Luena205,691
3. 2908 Mongbwalu205,051
4. 2996 Musangala199,847
5. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
6. 3036 Dilolo197,075
7. 3057 Kisantu195,949
8. 3094 Kinzao193,973
9. 3127 Nyunzu192,205

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 Kasangulu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Kasangulu 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