Topics
Yenagoa, 
Nigeria
586,393 people lived in Yenagoa in 2025. It is the 933rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Nigeria.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yenagoa grew
Where Yenagoa had 10 people in 1975, it had 60.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 943,975 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Yenagoa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yenagoa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yenagoa is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Nigeria in 2025, 457 in all, led by Lagos, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Yenagoa covered 91 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 18.4 times its size, and its people are 6 times as many.
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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 2 lived in Yenagoa, which is 586,393 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 Yenagoa's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 929 Ballari India587,340
- 930 Deoria India586,987
- 931 Kuching Malaysia586,880
- 932 Izhevsk Russia586,811
- 933 Yenagoa586,393
- 934 Zaragoza Spain585,533
- 935 Loudi China585,521
- 936 Cangzhou China585,507
- 937 Adama Ethiopia584,854
In Nigeria, 2025
- 862 Lokoja629,547
- 911 Ado Ekiti598,230
- 916 Ogale595,099
- 917 Katsina594,775
- 933 Yenagoa586,393
- 939 Madalla583,367
- 972 Ondo564,330
- 1076 Minna516,451
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode500,036
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 Yenagoa 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 Yenagoa 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