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Abu Gharaq, 
Iraq
189,692 people lived in Abu Gharaq in 2025. It is the 3169th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th largest in Iraq.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Abu Gharaq governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Abu Gharaq grew
Count 10 people in Abu Gharaq in 1995 and the same count gives 33 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 355,109 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Abu Gharaq through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Abu Gharaq in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iraq · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 88 cities in Iraq in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Baghdad. The ringed dot in colour is Abu Gharaq; 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, Abu Gharaq covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.1 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Iraq
Its share of Iraq
Of every 1,000 people in Iraq in 2025, 4 lived in Abu Gharaq, which is 189,692 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Iraq, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Abu Gharaq's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3161 Nabire Indonesia190,211
- 3164 Ibrat Uzbekistan189,898
- 3166 Rubaya Democratic Republic of the Congo189,880
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye Nigeria189,841
- 3169 Abu Gharaq189,692
- 3187 Mathbarer Char Bangladesh188,871
- 3190 Ar Rijad Yemen188,715
- 3194 Al Qurna188,604
- 3202 Nankana Sahib Pakistan188,474
In Iraq, 2025
- 2413 Gayara242,690
- 2464 Tal Afar237,454
- 2674 Az Zubayr220,737
- 2894 Suq al Shyukh206,015
- 3169 Abu Gharaq189,692
- 3194 Al Qurna188,604
- 4351 Al Kifl140,343
- 4719 Domeez129,444
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 Abu Gharaq are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Abu Gharaq 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