Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Manono in 1995, there were 87.3 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 896,316 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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.

How to read this: Manono 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.

In 2025, Manono covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.8 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 8.7 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 5 lived in Manono, which is 517,304 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 Manono; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1068 Juiz de Fora Brazil518,218
2. 1069 Dongsheng China518,080
3. 1070 Satna India517,402
4. 1071 Bukit Mertajam Malaysia517,326
5. 1072 Manono517,304
6. 1073 Kerman Iran517,216
7. 1074 Port Sudan Sudan517,023
8. 1075 Concepción Chile516,741
9. 1076 Minna Nigeria516,451

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 741 Kamina724,982
2. 809 Likasi673,034
3. 941 Bunia582,792
4. 1003 Kikwit549,102
5. 1072 Manono517,304
6. 1224 Butembo454,857
7. 1244 Kolwezi446,709
8. 1267 Gemena440,327
9. 1291 Mbandaka432,976

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.

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The figures for Manono are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Manono 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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