Magboro, Nigeria

For every 10 people in Magboro in 2005, there were 46.3 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 460,938 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. 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: 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.

How to read this: Magboro is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Nigeria in 2025, 457 in all, led by Lagos, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.

In 2025, Magboro covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 99 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 9 times its size, and its people are 4.6 times as many.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Magboro, which is 273,818 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Magboro's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2116 Gaithersburg United States274,439
2. 2117 Xianning China274,146
3. 2118 Abu Kabir Egypt274,073
4. 2120 Vehari Pakistan273,823
5. 2121 Magboro273,818
6. 2122 Nacala Mozambique273,732
7. 2123 Yibin China273,660
8. 2124 Asaka Uzbekistan273,582
9. 2128 Saskatoon Canada273,454

In Nigeria, 2025

1. 2007 Okrika289,429
2. 2053 Awka283,069
3. 2064 Ikirun281,875
4. 2095 Iwo277,101
5. 2121 Magboro273,818
6. 2151 Eket270,603
7. 2160 Ijebu-Igbo269,742
8. 2178 Lafia267,580
9. 2180 Agbor267,341

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 Magboro 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 Magboro 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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