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Ogbomosho, 
Nigeria
445,090 people lived in Ogbomosho in 2025. It is the 1248th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 43rd largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Ogbomosho 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 Ogbomosho grew
For every 10 people in Ogbomosho in 1975, there were 20.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 704,826 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Ogbomosho through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ogbomosho in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nigeria and its 457 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lagos). Ogbomosho 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, Ogbomosho covered 91 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 2 lived in Ogbomosho, which is 445,090 people.
How to read this: shrink Nigeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ogbomosho; 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
- 1244 Kolwezi Democratic Republic of the Congo446,709
- 1245 Sirajganj Bangladesh446,632
- 1246 Parbhani India446,508
- 1247 Pematang Siantar Indonesia446,269
- 1248 Ogbomosho445,090
- 1249 Chengde China444,971
- 1250 Hawassa Ethiopia444,909
- 1251 Tangail Bangladesh444,219
- 1252 Chaoyang China443,864
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1131 Ife492,000
- 1167 Gusau475,004
- 1170 Oshogbo473,929
- 1235 Ilesa450,464
- 1248 Ogbomosho445,090
- 1276 Titi436,744
- 1281 Oron436,247
- 1315 Dere425,674
- 1332 Bida421,605
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 Ogbomosho 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 Ogbomosho 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