Kitenge, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Kitenge had 10 people in 2005, it had 30.8 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 305,930 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. 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: 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: Kitenge 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, Kitenge covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.8 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 64%, and its people are 3.1 times as many.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Kitenge, which is 174,943 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kitenge's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3428 Islampur India176,380
2. 3433 Hayfan Yemen176,151
3. 3434 Layyah Pakistan176,125
4. 3451 Pingtung City Taiwan175,377
5. 3459 Kitenge174,943
6. 3485 Bukoba Tanzania173,889
7. 3495 Ebolowa Cameroon173,565
8. 3513 Gujar Khan Pakistan172,682
9. 3525 Luau Angola172,177

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 3094 Kinzao193,973
2. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
3. 3166 Rubaya189,880
4. 3418 Lwambo176,648
5. 3459 Kitenge174,943
6. 3593 Mukubu168,033
7. 3659 Sandoa165,522
8. 3825 Musumba158,159
9. 4052 Tshimbulu149,595

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.

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The figures for Kitenge 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 Kitenge 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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