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Mwene-Ditu, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
351,319 people lived in Mwene-Ditu in 2025. It is the 1631st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Mwene-Ditu's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mwene-Ditu grew
For every 10 people in Mwene-Ditu in 1975, there were 46.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 647,831 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Mwene-Ditu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mwene-Ditu 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: Mwene-Ditu 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.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Mwene-Ditu covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 4.6 times as many.
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 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, 3 lived in Mwene-Ditu, which is 351,319 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 Mwene-Ditu's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1627 Praia Grande Brazil352,067
- 1628 Karimnagar India351,832
- 1629 Longueuil Canada351,819
- 1630 Bauru Brazil351,405
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu351,319
- 1632 Xinyang China351,064
- 1633 Purulia India350,713
- 1634 Dahod India350,660
- 1635 Chimbote Peru350,281
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 1349 Uvira416,523
- 1375 Kongolo410,371
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu386,790
- 1504 Matadi377,297
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu351,319
- 1653 Ngandajika345,996
- 1784 Mulongo321,881
- 1791 Ilebo321,392
- 1859 Kindu309,727
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Mwene-Ditu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Mwene-Ditu 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