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Ngaoundéré, 
Cameroon
345,148 people lived in Ngaoundéré in 2025. It is the 1658th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Cameroon.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ngaoundéré grew
For every 10 people in Ngaoundéré in 1975, there were 55 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 474,470 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
Ngaoundéré through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ngaoundéré in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Cameroon in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Yaoundé. The ringed dot in colour is Ngaoundéré; 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, Ngaoundéré covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 5.5 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 Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 100 people in Cameroon in 2025, 1 lived in Ngaoundéré, which is 345,148 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Cameroon, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ngaoundéré's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1654 Bo Sierra Leone345,988
- 1655 Safi Morocco345,865
- 1656 Ras Al Khaimah United Arab Emirates345,621
- 1657 Bukalasi Uganda345,288
- 1658 Ngaoundéré345,148
- 1659 Jamalpur Bangladesh345,132
- 1660 Dili Timor-Leste345,038
- 1661 Guankou China344,468
- 1662 Augsburg Germany344,255
In Cameroon, 2025
- 109 Douala4,104,516
- 797 Garoua678,769
- 1052 Maroua526,702
- 1442 Bamenda394,155
- 1658 Ngaoundéré345,148
- 1745 Kumba329,340
- 1789 Bafoussam321,489
- 2389 Kousseri244,247
- 2491 Bertoua235,399
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ngaoundéré 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 Ngaoundéré 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