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Tabora, 
Tanzania
198,557 people lived in Tabora in 2025. It is the 3014th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Tanzania.
Like every city on this site, Tabora 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 Tabora grew
Where Tabora had 10 people in 1980, it had 27.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 359,785 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Tabora through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tabora in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Tanzania · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 45 cities in Tanzania in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Dar es Salaam. The ringed dot in colour is Tabora; 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, Tabora covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 55 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 100 people in Tanzania
Its share of Tanzania
Of every 1,000 people in Tanzania in 2025, 3 lived in Tabora, which is 198,557 people.
How to read this: shrink Tanzania to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Tabora; 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
- 2986 Trishal Bangladesh200,492
- 2987 Makiivka Ukraine200,425
- 2992 Lincoln Park United States200,040
- 2996 Musangala Democratic Republic of the Congo199,847
- 3014 Tabora198,557
- 3015 Kasangulu Democratic Republic of the Congo198,467
- 3018 Gitega Burundi198,363
- 3025 Unaizah Saudi Arabia197,665
- 3032 Dutse Nigeria197,314
In Tanzania, 2025
- 1956 Tanga296,202
- 2166 Dodoma269,047
- 2641 Songea223,567
- 2959 Iringa201,525
- 3014 Tabora198,557
- 3121 Musoma192,622
- 3311 Sumbawanga181,940
- 3485 Bukoba173,889
- 3670 Geita165,000
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 Tabora are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Tabora 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