Lwambo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Lwambo had 10 people in 2015, it had 24.8 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 366,858 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, 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.

How to read this: every dot is one of the 223 cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kinshasa. The ringed dot in colour is Lwambo; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Lwambo covered 14 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.4 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 20%, and its people have grown by 22%.

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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Lwambo, which is 176,648 people.

How to read this: shrink the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Lwambo; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3400 Oghi Pakistan177,887
2. 3406 Dearborn Heights United States177,423
3. 3415 Handia India176,779
4. 3417 Guzarah Afghanistan176,657
5. 3418 Lwambo176,648
6. 3422 Nkongsamba Cameroon176,511
7. 3423 Madhabpur Bangladesh176,480
8. 3428 Islampur India176,380
9. 3433 Hayfan Yemen176,151

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 3057 Kisantu195,949
2. 3094 Kinzao193,973
3. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
4. 3166 Rubaya189,880
5. 3418 Lwambo176,648
6. 3459 Kitenge174,943
7. 3593 Mukubu168,033
8. 3659 Sandoa165,522
9. 3825 Musumba158,159

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.

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The figures for Lwambo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Lwambo 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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