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Naqamte, 
Ethiopia
225,503 people lived in Naqamte in 2025. It is the 2612th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Ethiopia.
Like every city on this site, Naqamte is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Naqamte grew
Where Naqamte had 10 people in 1990, it had 42.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,922 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 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Naqamte through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Naqamte in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 259 cities in Ethiopia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Addis Ababa. The ringed dot in colour is Naqamte; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Naqamte covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.6 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 2 lived in Naqamte, which is 225,503 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Ethiopia; the coloured squares live in Naqamte. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2600 Maghagha Egypt226,358
- 2605 Sevastopol Ukraine226,028
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan Iran225,871
- 2610 Harar225,677
- 2612 Naqamte225,503
- 2615 Al Qusiya Egypt225,243
- 2617 Maharajganj India225,197
- 2618 Samundri Pakistan225,170
- 2624 Ile Oluji Nigeria224,781
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 2366 Irgalem246,701
- 2407 Quiha243,110
- 2472 Bonsa Bota237,061
- 2610 Harar225,677
- 2612 Naqamte225,503
- 2661 Hossana221,895
- 2737 Asella215,594
- 2920 Alaba Kulito204,316
- 3568 Kefole169,474
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Naqamte are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Naqamte 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