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Masetjhaba View, 
South Africa
522,402 people lived in Masetjhaba View in 2025. It is the 1056th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in South Africa.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Masetjhaba View 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 Masetjhaba View grew
Count 10 people in Masetjhaba View in 1975 and the same count gives 60.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 775,790 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Masetjhaba View through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Masetjhaba View in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Africa · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Masetjhaba View is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of South Africa in 2025, 95 in all, led by Johannesburg, 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, Masetjhaba View covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.3 times its size, and its people are 6.1 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 100 people in South Africa
Its share of South Africa
Of every 1,000 people in South Africa in 2025, 8 lived in Masetjhaba View, which is 522,402 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in South Africa; the coloured squares live in Masetjhaba View. 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
- 1052 Maroua Cameroon526,702
- 1053 Rohtak India526,540
- 1054 Astrakhan Russia524,085
- 1055 Jember Indonesia522,844
- 1056 Masetjhaba View522,402
- 1057 Málaga Spain521,854
- 1058 Edinburgh United Kingdom521,784
- 1059 Thiès Senegal521,678
- 1060 Shabqadar Pakistan521,259
In South Africa, 2025
- 396 Klipgat1,300,816
- 398 Tembisa1,298,512
- 688 Evaton773,229
- 824 Gqeberha661,220
- 1056 Masetjhaba View522,402
- 1115 Bloemfontein496,295
- 1233 Polokwane451,786
- 1264 Chief Albert Luthuli Park441,204
- 1668 Edendale342,930
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Masetjhaba View are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Masetjhaba View 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