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Uvira, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
416,523 people lived in Uvira in 2025. It is the 1349th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Uvira governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Uvira grew
For every 10 people in Uvira in 1975, there were 24 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 644,423 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Uvira through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Uvira in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its 223 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kinshasa). Uvira 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, Uvira covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.2 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people are 2.4 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its share of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 4 lived in Uvira, which is 416,523 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Uvira. 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
- 1345 Nice France418,294
- 1346 Eldoret Kenya418,175
- 1347 Chandrapur India416,903
- 1348 Taixing China416,677
- 1349 Uvira416,523
- 1350 Lishui China416,469
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
- 1352 Yixing China415,587
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh Egypt415,494
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 1224 Butembo454,857
- 1244 Kolwezi446,709
- 1267 Gemena440,327
- 1291 Mbandaka432,976
- 1349 Uvira416,523
- 1375 Kongolo410,371
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu386,790
- 1504 Matadi377,297
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu351,319
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 Uvira 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 Uvira 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