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Likuni, 
Malawi
151,695 people lived in Likuni in 2025. It is the 3995th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Malawi.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Likuni governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Likuni grew
Where Likuni had 10 people in 2005, it had 25.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 306,571 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 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Likuni through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Likuni in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Malawi · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Malawi and its 8 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lilongwe). Likuni 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, Likuni covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.8 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people are 2.5 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 Malawi
Its share of Malawi
Of every 1,000 people in Malawi in 2025, 7 lived in Likuni, which is 151,695 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Malawi, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Likuni's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3895 Katoro Tanzania155,625
- 3914 Sodo Ethiopia154,912
- 3916 Sohar Oman154,765
- 3917 Thatta Pakistan154,717
- 3995 Likuni151,695
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang Indonesia150,872
- 4034 Mawza` Yemen150,293
- 4052 Tshimbulu Democratic Republic of the Congo149,595
- 4071 Bairgachhi India148,986
In Malawi, 2025
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 Likuni 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 Likuni 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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