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Quiha, 
Ethiopia
243,110 people lived in Quiha in 2025. It is the 2407th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Ethiopia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Quiha governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Quiha grew
Where Quiha had 10 people in 1975, it had 38 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 431,379 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Quiha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Quiha in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Quiha 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, Quiha covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.3 km² of it. That is 5 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres.
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
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 2 lived in Quiha, which is 243,110 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Ethiopia; the coloured squares live in Quiha. 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
- 2400 Sawai Madhopur India243,561
- 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
- 2404 Kamituga Democratic Republic of the Congo243,261
- 2405 Ho Ghana243,211
- 2407 Quiha243,110
- 2408 Dapaong Togo242,985
- 2409 Pokhariya Nepal242,966
- 2410 Kambove Democratic Republic of the Congo242,939
- 2412 Poltava Ukraine242,753
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 2012 Kombolcha288,941
- 2185 Bule Hora267,051
- 2209 Arsi Negelle264,039
- 2366 Irgalem246,701
- 2407 Quiha243,110
- 2472 Bonsa Bota237,061
- 2610 Harar225,677
- 2612 Naqamte225,503
- 2661 Hossana221,895
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 Quiha 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 Quiha 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