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Agadir, 
Morocco
869,990 people lived in Agadir in 2025. It is the 602nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Morocco.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Agadir 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 Agadir grew
Count 10 people in Agadir in 1980 and the same count gives 129 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 970,975 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Agadir through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Agadir in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 73 cities in Morocco in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Casablanca. The ringed dot in colour is Agadir; 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, Agadir covered 116 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.9 times its size, and its people are 12.9 times as many.
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 Morocco
Its share of Morocco
Of every 100 people in Morocco in 2025, 2 lived in Agadir, which is 869,990 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Morocco, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Agadir's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 598 Al Ain United Arab Emirates873,839
- 599 Hengyang China873,169
- 600 Nowshera Pakistan872,172
- 601 Cagayan de Oro Philippines870,291
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 603 Katowice Poland865,777
- 604 Bata Equatorial Guinea863,383
- 605 Bokaro India862,593
- 606 Guntur India862,068
In Morocco, 2025
- 240 Rabat2,069,287
- 373 Fez1,359,989
- 423 Tangier1,217,976
- 502 Marrakesh1,021,530
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 967 Kenitra566,802
- 1185 Tétouan469,642
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 Agadir are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Agadir 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