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Moundou, 
Chad
281,943 people lived in Moundou in 2025. It is the 2063rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Chad.
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 Moundou'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 Moundou grew
Count 10 people in Moundou in 1975 and the same count gives 20.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 430,417 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Moundou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Moundou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Chad · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chad and its 37 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is N'Djaména). Moundou is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Moundou covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.6 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 79%, and its people are 2.1 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 Chad
Its share of Chad
Of every 100 people in Chad in 2025, 1 lived in Moundou, which is 281,943 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Chad, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Moundou's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2059 Kemangkon Indonesia282,463
- 2060 Al Majidi Yemen282,395
- 2061 Hamamatsu Japan282,084
- 2062 Suizhou China282,058
- 2063 Moundou281,943
- 2064 Ikirun Nigeria281,875
- 2065 Heroica Nogales Mexico281,580
- 2066 Cape Coast Ghana281,579
- 2068 Batala India281,142
In Chad, 2025
- 257 N'Djaména1,934,909
- 1254 Abéché443,793
- 2063 Moundou281,943
- 2096 Sarh276,978
- 2647 Mongo223,205
- 2795 Am Timan212,167
- 3588 Faya-Largeau168,302
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 Moundou 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 Moundou 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