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Otite, 
Nigeria
1,020,218 people lived in Otite in 2025. It is the 503rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Nigeria.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Otite grew
Where Otite had 10 people in 1975, it had 48.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Otite through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Otite in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Otite 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, Otite covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 4.9 times as many.
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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 4 lived in Otite, which is 1.0 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Otite. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 499 Maceió Brazil1,023,645
- 500 Rotterdam Netherlands1,023,590
- 501 Karbala Iraq1,022,893
- 502 Marrakesh Morocco1,021,530
- 503 Otite1,020,218
- 504 Tanta Egypt1,018,577
- 505 Luohe China1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area China1,017,230
- 507 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates1,016,460
In Nigeria, 2025
- 368 Abuja1,373,722
- 399 Ilorin1,282,219
- 420 Maiduguri1,225,505
- 464 Enugu1,115,303
- 503 Otite1,020,218
- 561 Jos923,652
- 565 Ikorodu916,166
- 572 Sokoto903,238
- 622 Umuahia843,245
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 Otite 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 Otite 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