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Al Kifl, 
Iraq
140,343 people lived in Al Kifl in 2025. It is the 4351st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 35th largest in Iraq.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al Kifl grew
Where Al Kifl had 10 people in 2005, it had 23.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 388,073 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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 Kifl through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Kifl in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iraq · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Iraq and its 88 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Baghdad). Al Kifl 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 Kifl covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.7 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people have grown by 63%.
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 Iraq
Its share of Iraq
Of every 1,000 people in Iraq in 2025, 3 lived in Al Kifl, which is 140,343 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Iraq; the coloured squares live in Al Kifl. 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
- 4306 Leku Ethiopia141,486
- 4307 Lucapa Angola141,466
- 4324 Gurue Mozambique141,061
- 4339 Manazil Baradan Yemen140,682
- 4351 Al Kifl140,343
- 4370 Haidarganj India139,637
- 4384 Kurgan Russia139,073
- 4389 Rubuchi Nigeria138,912
- 4404 Khayran Yemen138,244
In Iraq, 2025
- 2674 Az Zubayr220,737
- 2894 Suq al Shyukh206,015
- 3169 Abu Gharaq189,692
- 3194 Al Qurna188,604
- 4351 Al Kifl140,343
- 4719 Domeez129,444
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 Kifl are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Kifl 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