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Kribi, 
Cameroon
142,534 people lived in Kribi in 2025. It is the 4282nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Cameroon.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kribi grew
Where Kribi had 10 people in 1995, it had 27.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 324,381 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kribi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kribi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Cameroon in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Yaoundé. The ringed dot in colour is Kribi; 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, Kribi covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.7 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 95%, and its people are 2.7 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, 5 lived in Kribi, which is 142,534 people.
How to read this: shrink Cameroon to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kribi; 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
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah Pakistan147,308
- 4208 Bontang Indonesia145,118
- 4221 Buligenyi Uganda144,692
- 4275 Abu Huminus Egypt142,823
- 4282 Kribi142,534
- 4293 Amrit Egypt142,164
- 4302 Kapiri Mposhi Zambia141,802
- 4305 Buulo Mareer Somalia141,522
- 4306 Leku Ethiopia141,486
In Cameroon, 2025
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3214 Guider187,887
- 3422 Nkongsamba176,511
- 3495 Ebolowa173,565
- 4282 Kribi142,534
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 Kribi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Kribi 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