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Ore, 
Nigeria
241,251 people lived in Ore in 2025. It is the 2431st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 91st largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Ore 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 Ore grew
Where Ore had 10 people in 1980, it had 47.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 341,697 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Ore through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ore 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). Ore 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, Ore covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.1 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 8.1 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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, 1 lived in Ore, which is 241,251 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 Ore's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2419 Monclova Mexico242,237
- 2421 Boma Democratic Republic of the Congo242,042
- 2427 Attock Pakistan241,714
- 2430 Tambacounda Senegal241,254
- 2431 Ore241,251
- 2432 Mianwali Pakistan241,207
- 2436 Xinchang China240,747
- 2437 Payyanur India240,715
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm Vietnam240,480
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2280 Abat256,126
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
- 2352 Abak248,528
- 2431 Ore241,251
- 2486 Funtua236,087
- 2529 Biliri232,398
- 2531 Oke Iho232,348
- 2571 Jega228,584
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ore are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Ore 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