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Vihiga, 
Kenya
119,644 people lived in Vihiga in 2025. It is the 5136th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Kenya.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Vihiga 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 Vihiga grew
Count 10 people in Vihiga in 2020 and the same count gives 15.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 445,372 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Vihiga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vihiga in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Kenya · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 50 cities in Kenya in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Nairobi. The ringed dot in colour is Vihiga; 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, Vihiga covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.0 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 67%, and its people have grown by 54%.
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 Kenya
Its share of Kenya
Of every 1,000 people in Kenya in 2025, 2 lived in Vihiga, which is 119,644 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Kenya; the coloured squares live in Vihiga. 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
- 5014 Fujieda Japan122,203
- 5021 Phulidumar India122,053
- 5067 Yirga Cheffe Ethiopia121,109
- 5114 Chucko Ethiopia120,065
- 5136 Vihiga119,644
- 5137 Paardekraal Ext 2 South Africa119,589
- 5167 Kafr Ibrash Egypt118,945
- 5229 Lal Afghanistan117,617
- 5258 Golbahar Afghanistan116,780
In Kenya, 2025
- 2983 Kisii200,579
- 3249 Naivasha185,944
- 3687 Embu164,283
- 4078 Ongata Rongai148,823
- 5136 Vihiga119,644
- 7167 Kiambu86,758
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 Vihiga are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Vihiga 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