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Kisangani, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
900,330 people lived in Kisangani in 2025. It is the 574th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kisangani governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kisangani grew
For every 10 people in Kisangani in 1975, there were 36.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kisangani through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kisangani 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: Kisangani 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.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kisangani covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 87%, and its people are 3.6 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 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, 8 lived in Kisangani, which is 900,330 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 Kisangani; 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
- 570 Dusseldorf Germany907,386
- 571 Tbilisi Georgia906,746
- 572 Sokoto Nigeria903,238
- 573 Frankfurt Germany900,483
- 574 Kisangani900,330
- 575 Odesa Ukraine899,157
- 576 Stuttgart Germany899,103
- 577 Ad Diwaniyah Iraq894,478
- 578 Lille France893,282
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 258 Beni1,923,700
- 336 Kananga1,504,370
- 487 Tshikapa1,054,686
- 550 Bukavu948,948
- 574 Kisangani900,330
- 654 Goma809,601
- 704 Kalemie758,379
- 741 Kamina724,982
- 809 Likasi673,034
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kisangani 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 Kisangani 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