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Ziguinchor, 
Senegal
282,751 people lived in Ziguinchor in 2025. It is the 2057th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Senegal.
Like every city on this site, Ziguinchor 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 Ziguinchor grew
Count 10 people in Ziguinchor in 1975 and the same count gives 31.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 380,781 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Ziguinchor through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ziguinchor in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Senegal · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 26 cities in Senegal in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Dakar. The ringed dot in colour is Ziguinchor; 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, Ziguinchor covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.1 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 50%, and its people are 3.2 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 Senegal
Its share of Senegal
Of every 100 people in Senegal in 2025, 1 lived in Ziguinchor, which is 282,751 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Senegal, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ziguinchor's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2053 Awka Nigeria283,069
- 2054 Boisar India283,063
- 2055 Sanhe China282,844
- 2056 Pemalang Indonesia282,807
- 2057 Ziguinchor282,751
- 2058 Chía Colombia282,679
- 2059 Kemangkon Indonesia282,463
- 2060 Al Majidi Yemen282,395
- 2061 Hamamatsu Japan282,084
In Senegal, 2025
- 446 Touba1,151,552
- 992 M'bour553,170
- 1059 Thiès521,678
- 1365 Kaolack412,347
- 2057 Ziguinchor282,751
- 2153 Saint-Louis270,413
- 2430 Tambacounda241,254
- 2461 Diourbel237,795
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ziguinchor 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 Ziguinchor 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