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Osciot, 
Ethiopia
59,256 people lived in Osciot in 2025. It is the 10437th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 211th largest in Ethiopia.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Osciot grew
Count 10 people in Osciot in 2020 and the same count gives 11.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 338,287 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Osciot through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Osciot in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Osciot is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ethiopia in 2025, 259 in all, led by Addis Ababa, 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, Osciot covered 9 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.7 km² of it.
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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in Ethiopia lived in Osciot in 2025 — about 1 in 2,273.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 9118 Chelenko67,991
- 9376 Loutu Democratic Republic of the Congo66,056
- 9384 Tarail Bangladesh66,019
- 9869 Tokar Sudan62,788
- 10437 Osciot59,256
- 11537 Gununew53,312
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 6478 Gogi95,403
- 7454 Aweday83,488
- 8905 Wenago69,703
- 9118 Chelenko67,991
- 10437 Osciot59,256
- 11537 Gununew53,312
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 Osciot are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Osciot 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