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Al Jahra, 
Kuwait
209,224 people lived in Al Jahra in 2025. It is the 2844th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Kuwait.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al Jahra grew
Count 10 people in Al Jahra in 1995 and the same count gives 24.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 315,630 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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 Jahra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Jahra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Kuwait · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kuwait and its 2 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kuwait City). Al Jahra 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, Al Jahra covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 79 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Kuwait
Its share of Kuwait
Of every 100 people in Kuwait in 2025, 4 lived in Al Jahra, which is 209,224 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Kuwait; the coloured squares live in Al Jahra. 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
- 2824 Madaripur Bangladesh210,635
- 2827 Ennerdale South Africa210,428
- 2835 Blitta-Gare Togo209,755
- 2843 Depalpur Pakistan209,417
- 2844 Al Jahra209,224
- 2845 Maner India209,055
- 2846 Madhuban India209,032
- 2857 Xai-Xai Mozambique208,703
- 2859 `Ar`ar Saudi Arabia208,320
In Kuwait, 2025
- 101 Kuwait City4,265,132
- 2844 Al Jahra209,224
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 Jahra are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Jahra 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 →
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