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Oshogbo, 
Nigeria
473,929 people lived in Oshogbo in 2025. It is the 1170th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 41st largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Oshogbo 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 Oshogbo grew
Count 10 people in Oshogbo in 1975 and the same count gives 38.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 681,988 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
Oshogbo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Oshogbo 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). Oshogbo 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, Oshogbo covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 61 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 3.8 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 2 lived in Oshogbo, which is 473,929 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 Oshogbo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1166 Etawah India475,213
- 1167 Gusau475,004
- 1168 Annaba Algeria474,367
- 1169 Jinzhong China473,959
- 1170 Oshogbo473,929
- 1171 Ghazipur India473,824
- 1172 Maringá Brazil473,708
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca Spain473,499
- 1174 La Serena Chile473,325
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1076 Minna516,451
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode500,036
- 1131 Ife492,000
- 1167 Gusau475,004
- 1170 Oshogbo473,929
- 1235 Ilesa450,464
- 1248 Ogbomosho445,090
- 1276 Titi436,744
- 1281 Oron436,247
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 Oshogbo 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 Oshogbo 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