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Otukpo, 
Nigeria
257,334 people lived in Otukpo in 2025. It is the 2270th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 85th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Otukpo 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 Otukpo grew
Where Otukpo had 10 people in 1975, it had 28 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 337,575 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Otukpo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Otukpo 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). Otukpo 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, Otukpo covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.8 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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, 1 lived in Otukpo, which is 257,334 people.
How to read this: shrink Nigeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Otukpo; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2265 Dinghai District China257,524
- 2266 Zahrat Laban Saudi Arabia257,467
- 2267 Cabo San Lucas Mexico257,436
- 2268 Murrieta United States257,413
- 2270 Otukpo257,334
- 2273 Jowhar Somalia257,210
- 2274 Arraiján Panama257,136
- 2275 Vanderbijlpark South Africa257,093
- 2276 Keren Eritrea256,896
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2218 Jalingo262,796
- 2219 Mubi262,651
- 2233 Agbara261,298
- 2259 Abua258,314
- 2270 Otukpo257,334
- 2278 Ogu256,345
- 2280 Abat256,126
- 2302 Hadejia252,778
- 2303 Azare252,755
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 Otukpo 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 Otukpo 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