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Ondo, 
Nigeria
564,330 people lived in Ondo in 2025. It is the 972nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Nigeria.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ondo governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ondo grew
Count 10 people in Ondo in 1975 and the same count gives 37.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 765,963 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Ondo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ondo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ondo is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Nigeria in 2025, 457 in all, led by Lagos, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ondo covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Ondo, which is 564,330 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ondo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
- 972 Ondo564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze China562,800
- 975 Sultanpur India562,032
- 976 Al Minya Egypt561,945
In Nigeria, 2025
- 916 Ogale595,099
- 917 Katsina594,775
- 933 Yenagoa586,393
- 939 Madalla583,367
- 972 Ondo564,330
- 1076 Minna516,451
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode500,036
- 1131 Ife492,000
- 1167 Gusau475,004
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 Ondo 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 Ondo 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