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Malanje, 
Angola
973,086 people lived in Malanje in 2025. It is the 532nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Angola.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Malanje's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Malanje grew
Where Malanje had 10 people in 1980, it had 119.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Malanje through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Malanje in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Malanje is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Angola in 2025, 57 in all, led by Luanda, 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, Malanje covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown by 88%, 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 Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 100 people in Angola in 2025, 2 lived in Malanje, which is 973,086 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Angola, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Malanje's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 528 Pekalongan Indonesia978,519
- 529 Arequipa Peru977,496
- 530 Omsk Russia975,485
- 531 Guilin China973,970
- 532 Malanje973,086
- 533 Glasgow United Kingdom970,320
- 534 Baoding China970,162
- 535 Duhok Iraq969,701
- 536 Xiangyang China969,011
In Angola, 2025
- 28 Luanda11,370,127
- 400 Lubango1,280,986
- 440 Cabinda1,157,345
- 532 Malanje973,086
- 752 Luena714,289
- 781 Cuito689,795
- 853 Huambo634,669
- 926 Benguela589,289
- 1077 Lobito516,153
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 Malanje are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Malanje 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