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Wenago, 
Ethiopia
69,703 people lived in Wenago in 2025. It is the 8905th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 160th largest in Ethiopia.
Like every city on this site, Wenago is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Wenago grew
Count 10 people in Wenago in 2020 and the same count gives 13.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 303,121 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Wenago through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wenago in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 259 cities in Ethiopia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Addis Ababa. The ringed dot in colour is Wenago; 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, Wenago covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.6 km² of it.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 1 lived in Wenago, which is 69,703 people.
How to read this: shrink Ethiopia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Wenago; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 8197 Pattan India75,975
- 8410 Jolo Philippines74,210
- 8652 Walungu Democratic Republic of the Congo71,897
- 8887 Ikot Ide Nigeria69,806
- 8905 Wenago69,703
- 9118 Chelenko67,991
- 9376 Loutu Democratic Republic of the Congo66,056
- 9384 Tarail Bangladesh66,019
- 9869 Tokar Sudan62,788
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 5474 Irba112,673
- 6060 Karamile101,975
- 6478 Gogi95,403
- 7454 Aweday83,488
- 8905 Wenago69,703
- 9118 Chelenko67,991
- 10437 Osciot59,256
- 11537 Gununew53,312
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 Wenago 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 Wenago 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 →
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