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Luputa, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
230,128 people lived in Luputa in 2025. It is the 2554th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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 Luputa grew
Count 10 people in Luputa in 1975 and the same count gives 30.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 426,576 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Luputa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Luputa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Luputa is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 223 in all, led by Kinshasa, 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, Luputa covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its share of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Luputa, which is 230,128 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Luputa. 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
- 2536 Mbarara Uganda231,926
- 2543 Man Côte d’Ivoire230,997
- 2544 Hasilpur Pakistan230,987
- 2548 Cockrell Hill United States230,727
- 2554 Luputa230,128
- 2560 Maymana Afghanistan229,355
- 2564 Cobán Guatemala229,017
- 2566 Mollar Char Bangladesh228,869
- 2567 Masrakh India228,857
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 2404 Kamituga243,261
- 2410 Kambove242,939
- 2421 Boma242,042
- 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu236,056
- 2554 Luputa230,128
- 2728 Bumba216,429
- 2734 Kahemba215,825
- 2736 Kabongo215,612
- 2765 Rutshuru214,158
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 Luputa 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 Luputa 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