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Al-Fashir, 
Sudan
633,077 people lived in Al-Fashir in 2025. It is the 855th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Sudan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Al-Fashir 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 Al-Fashir grew
Count 10 people in Al-Fashir in 1975 and the same count gives 48.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 906,071 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Al-Fashir through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Fashir 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 Al-Fashir; 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, Al-Fashir covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 4.8 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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 100 people in Sudan in 2025, 1 lived in Al-Fashir, which is 633,077 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Sudan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Al-Fashir's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 851 Long Xuyên Vietnam635,490
- 852 Liaoyang China635,212
- 853 Huambo Angola634,669
- 854 Fangshan China633,763
- 855 Al-Fashir633,077
- 856 Bordeaux France631,551
- 857 Yuxi China631,209
- 858 Ajmer India631,176
- 859 Qujing China630,828
In Sudan, 2025
- 56 Khartoum6,809,355
- 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
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 Al-Fashir 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 Al-Fashir 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