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Kousseri, 
Cameroon
244,247 people lived in Kousseri in 2025. It is the 2389th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Cameroon.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kousseri 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 Kousseri grew
Where Kousseri had 10 people in 1975, it had 38.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 361,228 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Kousseri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kousseri in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kousseri is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Cameroon in 2025, 44 in all, led by Yaoundé, 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, Kousseri covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.8 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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 Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 1,000 people in Cameroon in 2025, 8 lived in Kousseri, which is 244,247 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Cameroon, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kousseri's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2380 Chernihiv Ukraine244,882
- 2381 Khairpur Pakistan244,838
- 2384 Cinco Ranch United States244,538
- 2388 Subang Indonesia244,383
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2393 Ash Sharai Saudi Arabia244,064
- 2394 Panabo Philippines244,050
- 2397 Qena Egypt243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein Egypt243,779
In Cameroon, 2025
- 1442 Bamenda394,155
- 1658 Ngaoundéré345,148
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2649 Buea222,996
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kousseri 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 Kousseri 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