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ad-Damer, 
Sudan
157,497 people lived in ad-Damer in 2025. It is the 3846th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th 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-Damer'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-Damer grew
Where ad-Damer had 10 people in 1975, it had 19.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 310,673 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
ad-Damer through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in ad-Damer in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sudan and its 105 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Khartoum). ad-Damer is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, ad-Damer covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 85%, and its people have grown by 91%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 3 lived in ad-Damer, which is 157,497 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Sudan; the coloured squares live in ad-Damer. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3815 San José del Cabo Mexico158,693
- 3817 Ambatolahy II Madagascar158,588
- 3823 Shufune Ethiopia158,225
- 3825 Musumba Democratic Republic of the Congo158,159
- 3846 ad-Damer157,497
- 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
- 3870 Kafr Saqr Egypt156,498
- 3871 Shahabad India156,497
- 3881 Bến Tre Vietnam156,097
In Sudan, 2025
- 2523 Atbara232,808
- 2869 Mellit207,693
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan188,089
- 3355 Sinkāt180,082
- 3846 ad-Damer157,497
- 9869 Tokar62,788
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for ad-Damer 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-Damer 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