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Sekondi-Takoradi, 
Ghana
1,127,436 people lived in Sekondi-Takoradi in 2025. It is the 457th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Ghana.
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 Sekondi-Takoradi's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sekondi-Takoradi grew
Count 10 people in Sekondi-Takoradi in 1975 and the same count gives 59.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Sekondi-Takoradi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sekondi-Takoradi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ghana · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sekondi-Takoradi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ghana in 2025, 58 in all, led by Accra, 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, Sekondi-Takoradi covered 146 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 5.9 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Ghana
Its share of Ghana
Of every 100 people in Ghana in 2025, 3 lived in Sekondi-Takoradi, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Ghana, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Sekondi-Takoradi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 453 Dublin Ireland1,142,650
- 454 Đà Nẵng Vietnam1,142,621
- 455 Huizhou China1,137,670
- 456 Kazan Russia1,132,941
- 457 Sekondi-Takoradi1,127,436
- 458 Srinagar India1,126,638
- 459 Cologne Germany1,125,292
- 460 Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina Faso1,125,023
- 461 Suhaj Egypt1,123,349
In Ghana, 2025
- 71 Accra5,592,780
- 98 Kumasi4,297,984
- 457 Sekondi-Takoradi1,127,436
- 830 Tamale654,868
- 2066 Cape Coast281,579
- 2364 Koforidua246,770
- 2371 Obuasi245,920
- 2405 Ho243,211
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Sekondi-Takoradi 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 Sekondi-Takoradi 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