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Mokolo, 
Cameroon
190,418 people lived in Mokolo in 2025. It is the 3154th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Cameroon.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mokolo grew
Where Mokolo had 10 people in 1975, it had 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 318,468 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Mokolo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mokolo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Cameroon in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Yaoundé. The ringed dot in colour is Mokolo; 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, Mokolo covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 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 Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 1,000 people in Cameroon in 2025, 6 lived in Mokolo, which is 190,418 people.
How to read this: shrink Cameroon to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Mokolo; 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
- 3129 Qift Egypt191,964
- 3134 Mocuba Mozambique191,635
- 3150 Al `Udayn Yemen190,661
- 3153 Toraghundi Afghanistan190,543
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3161 Nabire Indonesia190,211
- 3164 Ibrat Uzbekistan189,898
- 3166 Rubaya Democratic Republic of the Congo189,880
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye Nigeria189,841
In Cameroon, 2025
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2649 Buea222,996
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3214 Guider187,887
- 3422 Nkongsamba176,511
- 3495 Ebolowa173,565
- 4282 Kribi142,534
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 Mokolo 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 Mokolo 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