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Ad Da'ein, 
Sudan
581,730 people lived in Ad Da'ein in 2025. It is the 944th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Sudan.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Ad Da'ein's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ad Da'ein grew
For every 10 people in Ad Da'ein in 1975, there were 63.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 839,475 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Ad Da'ein through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ad Da'ein in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 105 cities in Sudan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Khartoum. The ringed dot in colour is Ad Da'ein; 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, Ad Da'ein covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 6.4 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 100 people in Sudan in 2025, 1 lived in Ad Da'ein, which is 581,730 people.
How to read this: shrink Sudan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ad Da'ein; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 940 Oujda Morocco583,116
- 941 Bunia Democratic Republic of the Congo582,792
- 942 Lodz Poland582,659
- 943 Rajamahendravaram India582,520
- 944 Ad Da'ein581,730
- 945 Nimule South Sudan581,444
- 946 Jaunpur India580,893
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico580,878
- 948 Rasht Iran579,481
In Sudan, 2025
- 548 Nyala950,803
- 775 Kebkabiya694,415
- 826 Al-Ubayyid659,964
- 855 Al-Fashir633,077
- 944 Ad Da'ein581,730
- 1030 Buram537,169
- 1074 Port Sudan517,023
- 1140 Timerein486,586
- 1297 Kosti431,504
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 Ad Da'ein 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 Ad Da'ein 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