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Kanyabayonga — UN urban centre

126,033

Kanyabayonga: 126,033 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,856 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7305; 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: -0.6991, 29.1731. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,864Estimate
198068,579Estimate
198573,158Estimate
199079,122Estimate
199582,851Estimate
200080,931Estimate
200586,604Estimate
201089,698Estimate
2015100,157Estimate
2020108,690Estimate
2025126,033Estimate
2030143,945Projection
2035165,541Projection
2040195,614Projection
2045216,319Projection
2050238,256Projection

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