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Serrekunda, 
Gambia
1,156,903 people lived in Serrekunda in 2025. It is the 441st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in the Gambia.
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 Serrekunda's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Serrekunda grew
Where Serrekunda had 10 people in 1975, it had 123 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 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
Serrekunda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Serrekunda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Gambia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Serrekunda is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Gambia in 2025, 4 in all, 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, Serrekunda covered 181 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 46 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 12.3 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 the Gambia
Its share of the Gambia
Of every 100 people in the Gambia in 2025, 41 lived in Serrekunda, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in the Gambia; the coloured squares live in Serrekunda. 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
- 437 Shymkent Kazakhstan1,184,337
- 438 Bandar Lampung Indonesia1,184,054
- 439 Yueqing China1,160,214
- 440 Cabinda Angola1,157,345
- 441 Serrekunda1,156,903
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra Egypt1,156,501
- 443 Jammu India1,154,466
- 444 Kirkuk Iraq1,153,160
- 445 Rosario Argentina1,151,717
In the Gambia, 2025
- 441 Serrekunda1,156,903
- 3271 Brikama184,321
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 Serrekunda 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 Serrekunda 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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