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M'bour, 
Senegal
553,170 people lived in M'bour in 2025. It is the 992nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Senegal.
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'bour'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'bour grew
Where M'bour had 10 people in 1975, it had 52.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 922,406 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: 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
M'bour through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in M'bour in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Senegal · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Senegal and its 26 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Dakar). M'bour is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, M'bour covered 91 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.1 times its size, and its people are 5.3 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 Senegal
Its share of Senegal
Of every 100 people in Senegal in 2025, 3 lived in M'bour, which is 553,170 people.
How to read this: shrink Senegal to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in M'bour; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 988 Yitang China555,576
- 989 Dresden Germany554,612
- 990 Tabuk Saudi Arabia553,389
- 991 Rampur India553,229
- 992 M'bour553,170
- 993 Yaroslavl Russia553,086
- 994 Tampa United States551,988
- 995 Panjin China551,709
- 996 Azamgarh India551,621
In Senegal, 2025
- 120 Dakar3,852,475
- 446 Touba1,151,552
- 992 M'bour553,170
- 1059 Thiès521,678
- 1365 Kaolack412,347
- 2057 Ziguinchor282,751
- 2153 Saint-Louis270,413
- 2430 Tambacounda241,254
- 2461 Diourbel237,795
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for M'bour 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 M'bour 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