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Nimule, 
South Sudan
581,444 people lived in Nimule in 2025. It is the 945th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in South Sudan.
Like every city on this site, Nimule is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nimule grew
Where Nimule had 10 people in 2005, it had 78.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 940,035 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Nimule through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nimule in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: South Sudan and its 25 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people. Nimule is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Nimule covered 17 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.3 km² of it. That is 4 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 77%, and its people are 3.2 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 100 people in South Sudan
Its share of South Sudan
Of every 100 people in South Sudan in 2025, 5 lived in Nimule, which is 581,444 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in South Sudan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Nimule's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 941 Bunia Democratic Republic of the Congo582,792
- 942 Lodz Poland582,659
- 943 Rajamahendravaram India582,520
- 944 Ad Da'ein Sudan581,730
- 945 Nimule581,444
- 946 Jaunpur India580,893
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico580,878
- 948 Rasht Iran579,481
- 949 Damanhur Egypt579,215
In South Sudan, 2025
- 945 Nimule581,444
- 1316 Torit424,731
- 1453 Juba391,311
- 1740 Riwoto330,053
- 2156 Kapoeta270,167
- 2578 Yei228,087
- 2796 Narus212,131
- 5371 Imehejek114,546
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 Nimule 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 Nimule 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