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Menongue, 
Angola
299,802 people lived in Menongue in 2025. It is the 1917th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Angola.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Menongue grew
Where Menongue had 10 people in 1975, it had 21.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 615,865 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Menongue through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Menongue 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 Menongue; 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, Menongue covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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, 8 lived in Menongue, which is 299,802 people.
How to read this: shrink Angola to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Menongue; 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
- 1913 Orizaba Mexico300,041
- 1914 Lublin Poland300,013
- 1915 Merca Somalia299,906
- 1916 Caruaru Brazil299,805
- 1917 Menongue299,802
- 1918 Anantnag India299,385
- 1919 Bukittinggi Indonesia299,353
- 1920 Saransk Russia299,262
- 1921 Sorong Indonesia299,181
In Angola, 2025
- 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
- 3525 Luau172,177
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 Menongue 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 Menongue 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