Kinzao, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Kinzao in 1975, there were 38 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 317,059 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.

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: Kinzao 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, Kinzao covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.1 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 91%, and its people have grown by 59%.

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 Kinzao, which is 193,973 people.

How to read this: shrink the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kinzao; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3071 Kamalia Pakistan195,472
2. 3072 Kot Addu Pakistan195,384
3. 3079 Buraydah Saudi Arabia195,152
4. 3080 Fayzabad Afghanistan195,148
5. 3094 Kinzao193,973
6. 3121 Musoma Tanzania192,622
7. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
8. 3129 Qift Egypt191,964
9. 3134 Mocuba Mozambique191,635

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2996 Musangala199,847
2. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
3. 3036 Dilolo197,075
4. 3057 Kisantu195,949
5. 3094 Kinzao193,973
6. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
7. 3166 Rubaya189,880
8. 3418 Lwambo176,648
9. 3459 Kitenge174,943

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 Kinzao 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 Kinzao 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 →

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