Musoma, Tanzania

Count 10 people in Musoma in 1985 and the same count gives 36.1 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 352,145 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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: every dot is one of the 45 cities in Tanzania in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Dar es Salaam. The ringed dot in colour is Musoma; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Musoma covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.6 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Tanzania in 2025, 3 lived in Musoma, which is 192,622 people.

How to read this: shrink Tanzania to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Musoma; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3072 Kot Addu Pakistan195,384
2. 3079 Buraydah Saudi Arabia195,152
3. 3080 Fayzabad Afghanistan195,148
4. 3094 Kinzao Democratic Republic of the Congo193,973
5. 3121 Musoma192,622
6. 3127 Nyunzu Democratic Republic of the Congo192,205
7. 3129 Qift Egypt191,964
8. 3134 Mocuba Mozambique191,635
9. 3150 Al `Udayn Yemen190,661

In Tanzania, 2025

1. 2166 Dodoma269,047
2. 2641 Songea223,567
3. 2959 Iringa201,525
4. 3014 Tabora198,557
5. 3121 Musoma192,622
6. 3311 Sumbawanga181,940
7. 3485 Bukoba173,889
8. 3670 Geita165,000
9. 3768 Kahama160,713

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 Musoma are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Musoma 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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