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M'banza Congo, 
Angola
334,203 people lived in M'banza Congo in 2025. It is the 1714th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th 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 M'banza Congo'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 M'banza Congo grew
For every 10 people in M'banza Congo in 2005, there were 39.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 794,157 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
M'banza Congo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in M'banza Congo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 57 cities in Angola in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Luanda. The ringed dot in colour is M'banza Congo; 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, M'banza Congo covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.6 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 1,000 people in Angola in 2025, 9 lived in M'banza Congo, which is 334,203 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Angola, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have M'banza Congo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1710 Mansa Zambia335,503
- 1711 Jaranwala Pakistan335,463
- 1712 Agadez Niger335,322
- 1713 Tianmen China334,299
- 1714 M'banza Congo334,203
- 1715 Jianyang China333,938
- 1716 Neiva Colombia333,744
- 1717 Nagaon India333,706
- 1718 Xuanhua China333,650
In Angola, 2025
- 1355 Moçâmedes415,361
- 1381 Uíge408,927
- 1459 Soyo389,945
- 1646 Ondjiva347,591
- 1714 M'banza Congo334,203
- 1917 Menongue299,802
- 1977 Matala294,087
- 2252 Dundo259,341
- 3224 Cafunfo187,253
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 M'banza Congo 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 M'banza Congo 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