Musangala, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Musangala had 10 people in 2005, it had 32 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 501,566 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. 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: 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: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its 223 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kinshasa). Musangala is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Musangala covered 17 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.8 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 65%, and its people are 3.2 times as many.

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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Musangala, which is 199,847 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 Musangala. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 2985 Gamharia India200,505
2. 2986 Trishal Bangladesh200,492
3. 2987 Makiivka Ukraine200,425
4. 2992 Lincoln Park United States200,040
5. 2996 Musangala199,847
6. 3014 Tabora Tanzania198,557
7. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
8. 3018 Gitega Burundi198,363
9. 3025 Unaizah Saudi Arabia197,665

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2797 Bandundu212,016
2. 2817 Kabondo-Dianda211,167
3. 2897 Luena205,691
4. 2908 Mongbwalu205,051
5. 2996 Musangala199,847
6. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
7. 3036 Dilolo197,075
8. 3057 Kisantu195,949
9. 3094 Kinzao193,973

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.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · All the world's cities

The figures for Musangala 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 Musangala 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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