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Al-Shatrah, 
Iraq
307,652 people lived in Al-Shatrah in 2025. It is the 1870th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Iraq.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Al-Shatrah governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Al-Shatrah grew
Count 10 people in Al-Shatrah in 1975 and the same count gives 59.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 488,713 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-Shatrah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Al-Shatrah 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-Shatrah; 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-Shatrah covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.9 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 5.9 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, 7 lived in Al-Shatrah, which is 307,652 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Iraq, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Al-Shatrah's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1866 Qoqand Uzbekistan308,393
- 1867 Jacobabad Pakistan308,137
- 1868 Tonghua China308,016
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela307,794
- 1870 Al-Shatrah307,652
- 1871 Tapachula Mexico307,334
- 1872 Jinshan China307,246
- 1873 Damoh India307,218
- 1874 Ughelli Nigeria307,005
In Iraq, 2025
- 1132 Al-Kut491,247
- 1240 Ramadi449,183
- 1443 As Samawah393,865
- 1586 Fallujah359,695
- 1870 Al-Shatrah307,652
- 2376 Shorsh245,565
- 2413 Gayara242,690
- 2464 Tal Afar237,454
- 2674 Az Zubayr220,737
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-Shatrah 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-Shatrah 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