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Moçâmedes, 
Angola
415,361 people lived in Moçâmedes in 2025. It is the 1355th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th 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 Moçâmedes grew
Count 10 people in Moçâmedes in 1985 and the same count gives 54 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 919,516 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Moçâmedes through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Moçâmedes 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 Moçâmedes; 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, Moçâmedes covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.4 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown by 68%, and its people are 5.4 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 100 people in Angola in 2025, 1 lived in Moçâmedes, which is 415,361 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Angola, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Moçâmedes's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
- 1352 Yixing China415,587
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh Egypt415,494
- 1354 Fuyang China415,492
- 1355 Moçâmedes415,361
- 1356 Escondido United States415,167
- 1357 Batangas City Philippines415,103
- 1358 São José do Rio Preto Brazil414,406
- 1359 Sareyn Iran413,772
In Angola, 2025
- 853 Huambo634,669
- 926 Benguela589,289
- 1077 Lobito516,153
- 1080 Saurimo514,728
- 1355 Moçâmedes415,361
- 1381 Uíge408,927
- 1459 Soyo389,945
- 1646 Ondjiva347,591
- 1714 M'banza Congo334,203
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 Moçâmedes are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Moçâmedes 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