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Sikasso, 
Mali
389,804 people lived in Sikasso in 2025. It is the 1461st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Mali.
Like every city on this site, Sikasso is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sikasso grew
Count 10 people in Sikasso in 1985 and the same count gives 66.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 626,523 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Sikasso through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sikasso in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mali · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 20 cities in Mali in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Bamako. The ringed dot in colour is Sikasso; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Sikasso covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 6.6 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 Mali
Its share of Mali
Of every 100 people in Mali in 2025, 2 lived in Sikasso, which is 389,804 people.
How to read this: shrink Mali to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Sikasso; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1457 Kassala Sudan390,525
- 1458 Wenling China390,282
- 1459 Soyo Angola389,945
- 1460 Rangkasbitung Indonesia389,934
- 1461 Sikasso389,804
- 1462 Hawrah Yemen389,641
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj India389,533
- 1464 Iseyin Nigeria389,526
- 1465 Phuket Thailand389,376
In Mali, 2025
- 103 Bamako4,244,881
- 1461 Sikasso389,804
- 1962 Ségou295,589
- 2050 Koutiala283,496
- 2083 Kayes278,727
- 3607 Gao167,417
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 Sikasso 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 Sikasso 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