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Tambacounda, 
Senegal
241,254 people lived in Tambacounda in 2025. It is the 2430th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Senegal.
Like every city on this site, Tambacounda is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tambacounda grew
Where Tambacounda had 10 people in 1975, it had 33 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 346,410 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Tambacounda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tambacounda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Senegal · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Senegal and its 26 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Dakar). Tambacounda is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Tambacounda covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.5 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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 Senegal
Its share of Senegal
Of every 100 people in Senegal in 2025, 1 lived in Tambacounda, which is 241,254 people.
How to read this: shrink Senegal to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Tambacounda; 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
- 2417 Kannauj India242,353
- 2419 Monclova Mexico242,237
- 2421 Boma Democratic Republic of the Congo242,042
- 2427 Attock Pakistan241,714
- 2430 Tambacounda241,254
- 2431 Ore Nigeria241,251
- 2432 Mianwali Pakistan241,207
- 2436 Xinchang China240,747
- 2437 Payyanur India240,715
In Senegal, 2025
- 1059 Thiès521,678
- 1365 Kaolack412,347
- 2057 Ziguinchor282,751
- 2153 Saint-Louis270,413
- 2430 Tambacounda241,254
- 2461 Diourbel237,795
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 Tambacounda 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 Tambacounda 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