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Ash Shajarah, 
Yemen
159,506 people lived in Ash Shajarah in 2025. It is the 3800th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st 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 Ash Shajarah's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ash Shajarah grew
Where Ash Shajarah had 10 people in 2005, it had 29.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 361,724 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 2005, 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
Ash Shajarah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ash Shajarah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ash Shajarah is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Yemen in 2025, 111 in all, led by Sana'a, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ash Shajarah covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.1 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, 4 lived in Ash Shajarah, which is 159,506 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Yemen; the coloured squares live in Ash Shajarah. 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
- 3740 Fenchuganj Bangladesh161,718
- 3741 N'dalatando Angola161,700
- 3768 Kahama Tanzania160,713
- 3796 Masaka Uganda159,564
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 3815 San José del Cabo Mexico158,693
- 3817 Ambatolahy II Madagascar158,588
- 3823 Shufune Ethiopia158,225
- 3825 Musumba Democratic Republic of the Congo158,159
In Yemen, 2025
- 3150 Al `Udayn190,661
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
- 3433 Hayfan176,151
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh166,653
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4339 Manazil Baradan140,682
- 4404 Khayran138,244
- 4542 `Adan Barakah134,066
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 Ash Shajarah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Ash Shajarah 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