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Kumba, 
Cameroon
329,340 people lived in Kumba in 2025. It is the 1745th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th 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 Kumba grew
Count 10 people in Kumba in 1975 and the same count gives 29.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 623,134 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Kumba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kumba in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cameroon and its 44 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Yaoundé). Kumba is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kumba covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.4 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 3 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 100 people in Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 100 people in Cameroon in 2025, 1 lived in Kumba, which is 329,340 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Cameroon; the coloured squares live in Kumba. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1741 Plovdiv Bulgaria329,838
- 1742 Narmashir Iran329,526
- 1743 Greater Noida India329,385
- 1744 Faridpur Bangladesh329,383
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1746 Shiblanga Egypt328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig Egypt328,639
- 1748 Shizuoka Japan328,613
- 1749 Shangyu District China328,545
In Cameroon, 2025
- 797 Garoua678,769
- 1052 Maroua526,702
- 1442 Bamenda394,155
- 1658 Ngaoundéré345,148
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2519 Limbe233,212
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kumba 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 Kumba 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