Topics
Cities · Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mukanga, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
147,526 people lived in Mukanga in 2025. It is the 4117th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 76th largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Mukanga governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mukanga grew
Count 10 people in Mukanga in 2015 and the same count gives 20.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 342,885 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Mukanga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mukanga in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 223 cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kinshasa. The ringed dot in colour is Mukanga; 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, Mukanga covered 14 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.3 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres.
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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its share of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 1 lived in Mukanga, which is 147,526 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Mukanga. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4071 Bairgachhi India148,986
- 4078 Ongata Rongai Kenya148,823
- 4091 Bori Nigeria148,370
- 4103 Suncheon-si South Korea147,975
- 4117 Mukanga147,526
- 4118 Baffa Pakistan147,524
- 4131 Garhi Habibullah Pakistan147,308
- 4208 Bontang Indonesia145,118
- 4221 Buligenyi Uganda144,692
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 3593 Mukubu168,033
- 3659 Sandoa165,522
- 3825 Musumba158,159
- 4052 Tshimbulu149,595
- 4117 Mukanga147,526
- 4439 Lwebo137,354
- 4501 Luiza135,439
- 5978 Busisi103,613
- 6672 Kipese92,786
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 Mukanga are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Mukanga 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