San-Pédro, Côte d’Ivoire

For every 10 people in San-Pédro in 1985, there were 54.8 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 480,083 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.

How to read this: Côte d’Ivoire and its 47 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Abidjan). San-Pédro is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, San-Pédro covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 5.5 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 1,000 people in Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, 9 lived in San-Pédro, which is 293,698 people.

How to read this: shrink Côte d’Ivoire to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in San-Pédro; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1978 Chhindwara India293,950
2. 1979 Anlu China293,857
3. 1980 Shahrisabz Uzbekistan293,849
4. 1981 Bohicon Benin293,833
5. 1982 San-Pédro293,698
6. 1983 Lausanne Switzerland293,509
7. 1984 Hazro Pakistan293,506
8. 1985 Kasaji Democratic Republic of the Congo292,523
9. 1986 Kanyamazane South Africa292,211

In Côte d’Ivoire, 2025

1. 60 Abidjan6,621,711
2. 742 Bouaké724,691
3. 1584 Daloa360,630
4. 1591 Korhogo357,761
5. 1982 San-Pédro293,698
6. 2374 Yamoussoukro245,612
7. 2543 Man230,997
8. 2693 Gagnoa219,607
9. 2933 Duekoue203,323

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.

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The figures for San-Pédro are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 San-Pédro 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 →

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