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Lomé, 
Togo
2,415,011 people lived in Lomé in 2025. It is the 204th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Togo, where it is the capital.
Like every city on this site, Lomé is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lomé grew
Count 10 people in Lomé in 1975 and the same count gives 118.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 3.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Lomé through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lomé in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Togo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lomé is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Togo in 2025, 17 in all, 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, Lomé covered 356 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 115 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.2 times its size, and its people are 11.9 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 Togo
Its share of Togo
Of every 100 people in Togo in 2025, 25 lived in Lomé, which is 2.4 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Togo, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Lomé's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 200 Curitiba Brazil2,475,352
- 201 Tunis Tunisia2,473,428
- 202 Dighwara India2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh India2,437,733
- 204 Lomé2,415,011
- 205 Ponnani India2,409,567
- 206 Coimbatore India2,382,988
- 207 Rome Italy2,376,474
- 208 Almaty Kazakhstan2,367,611
In Togo, 2025
- 204 Lomé2,415,011
- 2408 Dapaong242,985
- 2835 Blitta-Gare209,755
- 3269 Atakpamé184,404
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 Lomé 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 Lomé 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