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Al Majidi, 
Yemen
282,395 people lived in Al Majidi in 2025. It is the 2060th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Yemen.
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 Majidi grew
Where Al Majidi had 10 people in 1975, it had 38.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 600,554 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Al Majidi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Majidi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yemen and its 111 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Sana'a). Al Majidi 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 Majidi covered 11 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.9 km² of it.
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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 7 lived in Al Majidi, which is 282,395 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Yemen, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Al Majidi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2056 Pemalang Indonesia282,807
- 2057 Ziguinchor Senegal282,751
- 2058 Chía Colombia282,679
- 2059 Kemangkon Indonesia282,463
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2061 Hamamatsu Japan282,084
- 2062 Suizhou China282,058
- 2063 Moundou Chad281,943
- 2064 Ikirun Nigeria281,875
In Yemen, 2025
- 1045 'Adan530,573
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1886 Yarim304,301
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2940 Bajil202,715
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan196,086
- 3150 Al `Udayn190,661
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Al Majidi 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 Majidi 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