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Ar Rijad, 
Yemen
188,715 people lived in Ar Rijad in 2025. It is the 3190th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Yemen.
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 Ar Rijad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ar Rijad grew
For every 10 people in Ar Rijad in 1990, there were 32.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 359,792 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Ar Rijad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ar Rijad 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). Ar Rijad 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, Ar Rijad covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.3 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, 5 lived in Ar Rijad, which is 188,715 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 Ar Rijad's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3166 Rubaya Democratic Republic of the Congo189,880
- 3167 Ago-Iwoye Nigeria189,841
- 3169 Abu Gharaq Iraq189,692
- 3187 Mathbarer Char Bangladesh188,871
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
- 3194 Al Qurna Iraq188,604
- 3202 Nankana Sahib Pakistan188,474
- 3209 Amassoma Nigeria188,265
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan Sudan188,089
In Yemen, 2025
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2940 Bajil202,715
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan196,086
- 3150 Al `Udayn190,661
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
- 3433 Hayfan176,151
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh166,653
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
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 Ar Rijad are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Ar Rijad 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