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Al-Kut, 
Iraq
491,247 people lived in Al-Kut in 2025. It is the 1132nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Iraq.
Like every city on this site, Al-Kut is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Kut grew
Count 10 people in Al-Kut in 1975 and the same count gives 56.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 731,906 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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-Kut through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Kut 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-Kut 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-Kut covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 5.7 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 Iraq
Its share of Iraq
Of every 100 people in Iraq in 2025, 1 lived in Al-Kut, which is 491,247 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Iraq, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Al-Kut's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1128 Hardoi India493,665
- 1129 Dezhou China493,272
- 1130 Bulawayo Zimbabwe492,771
- 1131 Ife Nigeria492,000
- 1132 Al-Kut491,247
- 1133 Cusco Peru490,968
- 1134 Quebec Canada490,451
- 1135 Kakinada India488,958
- 1136 Provo United States488,429
In Iraq, 2025
- 647 Nasiriyah813,799
- 648 Al Mushahidah813,506
- 836 Amarah645,612
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali570,883
- 1132 Al-Kut491,247
- 1240 Ramadi449,183
- 1443 As Samawah393,865
- 1586 Fallujah359,695
- 1870 Al-Shatrah307,652
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-Kut 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-Kut 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