Mukubu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Mukubu had 10 people in 2005, it had 30.5 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 306,660 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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.

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 Mukubu; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Mukubu covered 8 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.4 km² of it. That is 8 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 17%, and its people have grown by 18%.

How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.

Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 1 lived in Mukubu, which is 168,033 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mukubu's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3560 Shahrasti Bangladesh169,908
2. 3568 Kefole Ethiopia169,474
3. 3575 Aleta Wendo Ethiopia169,004
4. 3588 Faya-Largeau Chad168,302
5. 3593 Mukubu168,033
6. 3607 Gao Mali167,417
7. 3611 Ulipur Bangladesh167,347
8. 3613 Ngozi Burundi167,196
9. 3615 Berbera Somalia167,119

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
2. 3166 Rubaya189,880
3. 3418 Lwambo176,648
4. 3459 Kitenge174,943
5. 3593 Mukubu168,033
6. 3659 Sandoa165,522
7. 3825 Musumba158,159
8. 4052 Tshimbulu149,595
9. 4117 Mukanga147,526

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.

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The figures for Mukubu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Mukubu 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 →

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