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Al-Qadarif, 
Sudan
317,258 people lived in Al-Qadarif in 2025. It is the 1808th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Sudan.
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-Qadarif's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Qadarif grew
For every 10 people in Al-Qadarif in 1975, there were 32 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 396,058 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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-Qadarif through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Qadarif in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 105 cities in Sudan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Khartoum. The ringed dot in colour is Al-Qadarif; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Al-Qadarif covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 6 lived in Al-Qadarif, which is 317,258 people.
How to read this: shrink Sudan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Al-Qadarif; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1804 Sosnowiec Poland318,955
- 1805 Qili China318,490
- 1806 Malmo Sweden318,242
- 1807 Dumai Indonesia317,280
- 1808 Al-Qadarif317,258
- 1809 Nazirhat Bangladesh317,240
- 1810 Magnitogorsk Russia317,107
- 1811 Bhusawal India317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh India316,861
In Sudan, 2025
- 1297 Kosti431,504
- 1400 Wad Madanī403,988
- 1457 Kassala390,525
- 1491 Kas381,286
- 1808 Al-Qadarif317,258
- 2087 Saraf `Umrah278,467
- 2300 Rabak253,166
- 2308 Shendi252,344
- 2459 Derudeib238,164
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-Qadarif 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-Qadarif 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