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Nkongsamba, 
Cameroon
176,511 people lived in Nkongsamba in 2025. It is the 3422nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th 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 Nkongsamba grew
For every 10 people in Nkongsamba in 1975, there were 17.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 310,620 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Nkongsamba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nkongsamba in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cameroon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cameroon and its 44 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Yaoundé). Nkongsamba 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, Nkongsamba covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 67%, and its people have grown by 75%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Cameroon
Its share of Cameroon
Of every 1,000 people in Cameroon in 2025, 6 lived in Nkongsamba, which is 176,511 people.
How to read this: shrink Cameroon to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Nkongsamba; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3406 Dearborn Heights United States177,423
- 3415 Handia India176,779
- 3417 Guzarah Afghanistan176,657
- 3418 Lwambo Democratic Republic of the Congo176,648
- 3422 Nkongsamba176,511
- 3423 Madhabpur Bangladesh176,480
- 3428 Islampur India176,380
- 3433 Hayfan Yemen176,151
- 3434 Layyah Pakistan176,125
In Cameroon, 2025
- 2519 Limbe233,212
- 2649 Buea222,996
- 3154 Mokolo190,418
- 3214 Guider187,887
- 3422 Nkongsamba176,511
- 3495 Ebolowa173,565
- 4282 Kribi142,534
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 Nkongsamba 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 Nkongsamba 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