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Unguwar Arewa, 
Nigeria
166,817 people lived in Unguwar Arewa in 2025. It is the 3628th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 131st largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Unguwar Arewa 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 Unguwar Arewa grew
Where Unguwar Arewa had 10 people in 1975, it had 28.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 309,900 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045.
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
Unguwar Arewa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Unguwar Arewa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Unguwar Arewa; 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, Unguwar Arewa covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.4 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Unguwar Arewa, which is 166,817 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Unguwar Arewa's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3611 Ulipur Bangladesh167,347
- 3613 Ngozi Burundi167,196
- 3615 Berbera Somalia167,119
- 3622 Battagram Pakistan166,956
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa166,817
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh Yemen166,653
- 3652 Matta Pakistan165,993
- 3659 Sandoa Democratic Republic of the Congo165,522
- 3667 Akhaura Bangladesh165,093
In Nigeria, 2025
- 3032 Dutse197,314
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye189,841
- 3209 Amassoma188,265
- 3278 Akugba183,921
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa166,817
- 4091 Bori148,370
- 4389 Rubuchi138,912
- 4522 Okposi134,677
- 7870 Enugu-Ezike79,250
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 Unguwar Arewa 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 Unguwar Arewa 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