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Walungu, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
71,897 people lived in Walungu in 2025. It is the 8652nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 153rd largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Walungu 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 Walungu grew
For every 10 people in Walungu in 1990, there were 13.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 479,271 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 1990, 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
Walungu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Walungu 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). Walungu 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, Walungu covered 11 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.0 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres.
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, 1 lived in Walungu, which is 71,897 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Walungu's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 8055 Sassalemba Angola77,355
- 8155 Harichand Pakistan76,461
- 8197 Pattan India75,975
- 8410 Jolo Philippines74,210
- 8652 Walungu71,897
- 8887 Ikot Ide Nigeria69,806
- 8905 Wenago Ethiopia69,703
- 9118 Chelenko Ethiopia67,991
- 9376 Loutu66,056
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 4439 Lwebo137,354
- 4501 Luiza135,439
- 5978 Busisi103,613
- 6672 Kipese92,786
- 8652 Walungu71,897
- 9376 Loutu66,056
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 Walungu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Walungu 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