Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Kisantu had 10 people in 1990, it had 32.7 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 356,252 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 1990, 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.

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 Kisantu; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Kisantu covered 29 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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 Kisantu, which is 195,949 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 Kisantu. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 3042 Dina Pakistan196,799
2. 3043 Bhalwal Pakistan196,792
3. 3049 Shujaabad Pakistan196,255
4. 3053 Bayt Sa`dan Yemen196,086
5. 3057 Kisantu195,949
6. 3066 Củ Chi Vietnam195,626
7. 3071 Kamalia Pakistan195,472
8. 3072 Kot Addu Pakistan195,384
9. 3079 Buraydah Saudi Arabia195,152

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2908 Mongbwalu205,051
2. 2996 Musangala199,847
3. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
4. 3036 Dilolo197,075
5. 3057 Kisantu195,949
6. 3094 Kinzao193,973
7. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
8. 3166 Rubaya189,880
9. 3418 Lwambo176,648

How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · All the world's cities

The figures for Kisantu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Kisantu 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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