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Am Timan, 
Chad
212,167 people lived in Am Timan in 2025. It is the 2795th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Chad.
Like every city on this site, Am Timan 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 Am Timan grew
Where Am Timan had 10 people in 1980, it had 41.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 318,197 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 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Am Timan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Am Timan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Chad · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 37 cities in Chad in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being N'Djaména. The ringed dot in colour is Am Timan; 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, Am Timan covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.7 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 2.4 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Chad
Its share of Chad
Of every 100 people in Chad in 2025, 1 lived in Am Timan, which is 212,167 people.
How to read this: shrink Chad to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Am Timan; 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
- 2775 Ica Peru213,644
- 2776 Shindand Afghanistan213,596
- 2788 Inayat Killi Pakistan212,640
- 2789 Auchi Nigeria212,634
- 2795 Am Timan212,167
- 2796 Narus South Sudan212,131
- 2797 Bandundu Democratic Republic of the Congo212,016
- 2799 Darauli India211,985
- 2801 Koliwar India211,825
In Chad, 2025
- 1254 Abéché443,793
- 2063 Moundou281,943
- 2096 Sarh276,978
- 2647 Mongo223,205
- 2795 Am Timan212,167
- 3588 Faya-Largeau168,302
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 Am Timan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Am Timan 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