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Morogoro, 
Tanzania
461,634 people lived in Morogoro in 2025. It is the 1205th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Tanzania.
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 Morogoro grew
Where Morogoro had 10 people in 1985, it had 67 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050. 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: 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
Morogoro through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Morogoro in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Tanzania · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Morogoro is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Tanzania in 2025, 45 in all, led by Dar es Salaam, 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, Morogoro covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 6.7 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 Tanzania
Its share of Tanzania
Of every 1,000 people in Tanzania in 2025, 7 lived in Morogoro, which is 461,634 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Tanzania, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Morogoro's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1201 Haldwani India463,530
- 1202 West Valley City United States463,325
- 1203 Yuhu China462,605
- 1204 Yanji China461,800
- 1205 Morogoro461,634
- 1206 Zhanghua City Taiwan461,552
- 1207 Kismayo Somalia461,302
- 1208 Purnia India461,043
- 1209 Nagercoil India460,826
In Tanzania, 2025
- 538 Zanzibar City966,642
- 544 Mwanza954,104
- 665 Arusha795,744
- 1025 Mbeya539,248
- 1205 Morogoro461,634
- 1677 Kigoma340,483
- 1861 Moshi309,202
- 1956 Tanga296,202
- 2166 Dodoma269,047
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Morogoro 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 Morogoro 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