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Kipese, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
92,786 people lived in Kipese in 2025. It is the 6672nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 115th largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kipese grew
Count 10 people in Kipese in 2005 and the same count gives 17.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 327,597 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2045 and 2050. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kipese through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kipese in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · every city · 2025
Where it is
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 Kipese; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kipese covered 7 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.3 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 18%, and its people have grown by 11%.
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 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its share of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 1 lived in Kipese, which is 92,786 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 Kipese; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 5978 Busisi103,613
- 6060 Karamile Ethiopia101,975
- 6225 Cuamba Mozambique99,179
- 6478 Gogi Ethiopia95,403
- 6672 Kipese92,786
- 6688 Fatehpur India92,631
- 6818 Bokhtar Tajikistan90,998
- 7167 Kiambu Kenya86,758
- 7454 Aweday Ethiopia83,488
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 4117 Mukanga147,526
- 4439 Lwebo137,354
- 4501 Luiza135,439
- 5978 Busisi103,613
- 6672 Kipese92,786
- 8652 Walungu71,897
- 9376 Loutu66,056
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kipese are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Kipese 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