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Uíge, 
Angola
408,927 people lived in Uíge in 2025. It is the 1381st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th largest in Angola.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Uíge grew
Where Uíge had 10 people in 1975, it had 4 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 848,365 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Uíge fall from 1.1 million in 1985 to 336,354 in 2020. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1985 figure as low: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Uíge through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Uíge in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 57 cities in Angola in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Luanda. The ringed dot in colour is Uíge; 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, Uíge covered 50 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people have fallen by 60%.
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 Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 100 people in Angola in 2025, 1 lived in Uíge, which is 408,927 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Angola; the coloured squares live in Uíge. 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
- 1377 Windhoek Namibia409,758
- 1378 Nganjuk Indonesia409,447
- 1379 Mazatlán Mexico409,143
- 1380 Dongtai China409,015
- 1381 Uíge408,927
- 1382 Makurdi Nigeria408,753
- 1383 Kendari Indonesia408,731
- 1384 Huế Vietnam408,692
- 1385 Waidhan India408,489
In Angola, 2025
- 926 Benguela589,289
- 1077 Lobito516,153
- 1080 Saurimo514,728
- 1355 Moçâmedes415,361
- 1381 Uíge408,927
- 1459 Soyo389,945
- 1646 Ondjiva347,591
- 1714 M'banza Congo334,203
- 1917 Menongue299,802
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Uíge 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 Uíge 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