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Lwebo, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
137,354 people lived in Lwebo in 2025. It is the 4439th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 81st largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Lwebo governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lwebo grew
Where Lwebo had 10 people in 2005, it had 22.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,294 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 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Lwebo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lwebo 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: 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 Lwebo; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Lwebo covered 9 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.5 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 50%, and its people are 2.2 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 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, 1 lived in Lwebo, which is 137,354 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 Lwebo. 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
- 4370 Haidarganj India139,637
- 4384 Kurgan Russia139,073
- 4389 Rubuchi Nigeria138,912
- 4404 Khayran Yemen138,244
- 4439 Lwebo137,354
- 4501 Luiza135,439
- 4522 Okposi Nigeria134,677
- 4537 Marawi Philippines134,181
- 4542 `Adan Barakah Yemen134,066
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 3659 Sandoa165,522
- 3825 Musumba158,159
- 4052 Tshimbulu149,595
- 4117 Mukanga147,526
- 4439 Lwebo137,354
- 4501 Luiza135,439
- 5978 Busisi103,613
- 6672 Kipese92,786
- 8652 Walungu71,897
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 Lwebo 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 Lwebo 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