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Nzérékoré, 
Guinea
272,866 people lived in Nzérékoré in 2025. It is the 2133rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Guinea.
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 Nzérékoré's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nzérékoré grew
Count 10 people in Nzérékoré in 1985 and the same count gives 45.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 322,963 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Nzérékoré through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nzérékoré in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Guinea · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 24 cities in Guinea in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Conacry. The ringed dot in colour is Nzérékoré; 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, Nzérékoré covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 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 Guinea
Its share of Guinea
Of every 100 people in Guinea in 2025, 2 lived in Nzérékoré, which is 272,866 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Guinea; the coloured squares live in Nzérékoré. 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
- 2124 Asaka Uzbekistan273,582
- 2128 Saskatoon Canada273,454
- 2130 Sanmenxia China272,970
- 2132 Cabanatuan Philippines272,890
- 2133 Nzérékoré272,866
- 2134 Dalla India272,778
- 2138 Guna India271,913
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas Indonesia271,868
- 2140 Zacatecas Mexico271,829
In Guinea, 2025
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 Nzérékoré are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Nzérékoré 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