Mulongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Mulongo in 1995, there were 53.9 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 684,364 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.

How to read this: Mulongo is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 223 in all, led by Kinshasa, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.

In 2025, Mulongo covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.4 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 5.4 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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 3 lived in Mulongo, which is 321,881 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 Mulongo. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 1780 Parma United States322,420
2. 1781 Ciudad Victoria Mexico322,403
3. 1782 Kirov Russia322,377
4. 1783 Hull United Kingdom322,100
5. 1784 Mulongo321,881
6. 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
7. 1786 Shariatpur Bangladesh321,804
8. 1787 Timofeevka Russia321,680
9. 1788 Katni India321,522

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 1471 Malemba-Nkulu386,790
2. 1504 Matadi377,297
3. 1631 Mwene-Ditu351,319
4. 1653 Ngandajika345,996
5. 1784 Mulongo321,881
6. 1791 Ilebo321,392
7. 1859 Kindu309,727
8. 1928 Fungurume298,713
9. 1973 Kasumbalesa294,623

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.

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The figures for Mulongo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Mulongo 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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