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Tete, 
Mozambique
421,174 people lived in Tete in 2025. It is the 1334th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Mozambique.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Tete governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tete grew
Where Tete had 10 people in 1995, it had 51.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 800,094 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
Tete through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tete in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mozambique · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mozambique and its 48 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Maputo). Tete 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, Tete covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 5.1 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 Mozambique
Its share of Mozambique
Of every 100 people in Mozambique in 2025, 1 lived in Tete, which is 421,174 people.
How to read this: shrink Mozambique to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Tete; 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
- 1330 Chișinău Moldova422,035
- 1331 Bathinda India421,753
- 1332 Bida Nigeria421,605
- 1333 Raiwind Pakistan421,524
- 1334 Tete421,174
- 1335 Kamoke Pakistan421,152
- 1336 Navsari India421,121
- 1337 Giridih India420,525
- 1338 Probolinggo Indonesia420,356
In Mozambique, 2025
- 584 Nampula885,780
- 892 Beira608,097
- 1228 Chimoio453,521
- 1271 Quelimane438,554
- 1334 Tete421,174
- 1975 Lichinga294,317
- 2122 Nacala273,732
- 2232 Pemba261,380
- 2857 Xai-Xai208,703
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 Tete are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Tete 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