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Mocuba, 
Mozambique
191,635 people lived in Mocuba in 2025. It is the 3134th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Mozambique.
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 Mocuba'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 Mocuba grew
Where Mocuba had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 325,316 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Mocuba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mocuba in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mozambique · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mocuba is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mozambique in 2025, 48 in all, led by Maputo, 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, Mocuba covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.5 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Mozambique
Its share of Mozambique
Of every 1,000 people in Mozambique in 2025, 5 lived in Mocuba, which is 191,635 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Mozambique, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mocuba's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3094 Kinzao Democratic Republic of the Congo193,973
- 3121 Musoma Tanzania192,622
- 3127 Nyunzu Democratic Republic of the Congo192,205
- 3129 Qift Egypt191,964
- 3134 Mocuba191,635
- 3150 Al `Udayn Yemen190,661
- 3153 Toraghundi Afghanistan190,543
- 3154 Mokolo Cameroon190,418
- 3161 Nabire Indonesia190,211
In Mozambique, 2025
- 1975 Lichinga294,317
- 2122 Nacala273,732
- 2232 Pemba261,380
- 2857 Xai-Xai208,703
- 3134 Mocuba191,635
- 4324 Gurue141,061
- 6225 Cuamba99,179
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 Mocuba 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 Mocuba 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