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Musangala — UN urban centre

199,847

Musangala: 199,847 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,996 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6923; territory: DR Congo (COD). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: -10.386, 28.6117. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200562,366Estimate
201091,069Estimate
2015124,530Estimate
2020159,733Estimate
2025199,847Estimate
2030258,936Projection
2035316,729Projection
2040373,919Projection
2045437,189Projection
2050501,566Projection

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