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Sassalemba, 
Angola
77,355 people lived in Sassalemba in 2025. It is the 8055th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 41st largest in Angola.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Sassalemba's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sassalemba grew
Sassalemba first appears on the UN's list in 2025, with 77,355 people.
On the UN's projection it will have 390,296 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Sassalemba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sassalemba in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sassalemba is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Angola in 2025, 57 in all, led by Luanda, 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, Sassalemba covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres.
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 100 people in Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 1,000 people in Angola in 2025, 2 lived in Sassalemba, which is 77,355 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Angola; the coloured squares live in Sassalemba. 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
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah Yemen80,686
- 7734 Caxito80,602
- 7767 Mutubis Egypt80,283
- 7870 Enugu-Ezike Nigeria79,250
- 8055 Sassalemba77,355
- 8155 Harichand Pakistan76,461
- 8197 Pattan India75,975
- 8410 Jolo Philippines74,210
- 8652 Walungu Democratic Republic of the Congo71,897
In Angola, 2025
- 3696 Cazombo163,870
- 3741 N'dalatando161,700
- 4307 Lucapa141,466
- 7734 Caxito80,602
- 8055 Sassalemba77,355
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 Sassalemba are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2025 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 Sassalemba 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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