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Limbe, 
Cameroon
233,212 people lived in Limbe in 2025. It is the 2519th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Cameroon.
Like every city on this site, Limbe is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Limbe grew
For every 10 people in Limbe in 1975, there were 45.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 498,748 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
Limbe through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Limbe in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Limbe 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, Limbe covered 38 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 4.5 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 1,000 people in Cameroon in 2025, 8 lived in Limbe, which is 233,212 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 Limbe's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2503 Bilasipara India234,318
- 2513 El Geneina Sudan233,696
- 2515 Chakan India233,615
- 2517 Kasama Zambia233,587
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2523 Atbara Sudan232,808
- 2526 Mutuati Kenya232,440
- 2527 Nakhon Pathom Thailand232,416
- 2528 Bosaso Somalia232,410
In Cameroon, 2025
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2649 Buea222,996
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3214 Guider187,887
- 3422 Nkongsamba176,511
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 Limbe 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 Limbe 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