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Al Qurna, 
Iraq
188,604 people lived in Al Qurna in 2025. It is the 3194th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 29th largest in Iraq.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Al Qurna governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al Qurna grew
Count 10 people in Al Qurna in 2000 and the same count gives 35.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 343,311 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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 Qurna through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al Qurna in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iraq · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 88 cities in Iraq in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Baghdad. The ringed dot in colour is Al Qurna; 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 Qurna covered 24 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.7 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Iraq
Its share of Iraq
Of every 1,000 people in Iraq in 2025, 4 lived in Al Qurna, which is 188,604 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Iraq; the coloured squares live in Al Qurna. 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
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye Nigeria189,841
- 3169 Abu Gharaq189,692
- 3187 Mathbarer Char Bangladesh188,871
- 3190 Ar Rijad Yemen188,715
- 3194 Al Qurna188,604
- 3202 Nankana Sahib Pakistan188,474
- 3209 Amassoma Nigeria188,265
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan Sudan188,089
- 3214 Guider Cameroon187,887
In Iraq, 2025
- 2464 Tal Afar237,454
- 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 Qurna are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Qurna 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