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Al-Hasakah, 
Syria
235,085 people lived in Al-Hasakah in 2025. It is the 2494th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Syria.
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 Al-Hasakah's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Hasakah grew
For every 10 people in Al-Hasakah in 1975, there were 45.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 312,089 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Al-Hasakah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Hasakah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Syria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Al-Hasakah is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Syria in 2025, 37 in all, led by Damascus, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Al-Hasakah covered 42 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Syria
Its share of Syria
Of every 1,000 people in Syria in 2025, 9 lived in Al-Hasakah, which is 235,085 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Syria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Al-Hasakah's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2486 Funtua Nigeria236,087
- 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu Democratic Republic of the Congo236,056
- 2489 Sinnuris Egypt235,984
- 2491 Bertoua Cameroon235,399
- 2494 Al-Hasakah235,085
- 2495 Blumenau Brazil234,982
- 2498 Tanda India234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara India234,318
- 2513 El Geneina Sudan233,696
In Syria, 2025
- 1520 Hama374,643
- 2010 Qamishli289,200
- 2246 Deir Ez Zor259,771
- 2471 Raqqa237,106
- 2494 Al-Hasakah235,085
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 Al-Hasakah 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-Hasakah 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