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Saki, 
Nigeria
400,875 people lived in Saki in 2025. It is the 1413th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 52nd 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Saki grew
Where Saki had 10 people in 1975, it had 35.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 637,870 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Saki through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Saki 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). Saki 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, Saki covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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, 2 lived in Saki, which is 400,875 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 Saki's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1409 Feni Bangladesh401,506
- 1410 Mallawi Egypt401,471
- 1411 Bhiwadi India401,290
- 1412 Sandakan Malaysia400,980
- 1413 Saki400,875
- 1414 Modinagar India400,401
- 1415 Podolsk Russia400,335
- 1416 Guarenas Venezuela399,477
- 1417 Manisa Türkiye399,014
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1343 Ikot Ekpene418,650
- 1382 Makurdi408,753
- 1392 Abakaliki406,105
- 1401 Asaba403,859
- 1413 Saki400,875
- 1427 Potiskum397,981
- 1464 Iseyin389,526
- 1496 KUNDULUN380,118
- 1506 Gamboru376,374
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 Saki 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 Saki 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