Somalia Cities by Population 2026

Somalia Overview

The largest city in Somalia is Mogadishu, with a population of 3,307,421 people.

Somalia is the world’s 66th largest country, and it also has a population of over 20.3 million inhabitants. The largest city in the country is Mogadishu, which has over 3.3M residents and accounts for about one-quarter of the country’s total population count.

This doesn’t account for the full population of the country, however. Many people in Somalia live outside of the larger cities and reside in the rural areas. As of 2015, about 60% of the population lived in a rural area. This shows decrease from 1960’s figure of 83%, indicating that cities have grown and expanded and many people who once lived in the less populated areas are now making the transition to the urbanized areas of the country. The country is currently experiencing a period of rapid growth, with an annual growth rate of almost 3%. At this rate, it will be fascinating to see how the overall dynamics across rural and urban areas change, as well as how large the populations of the country and each of its major cities grow into the future.