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At Ta'if, 
Saudi Arabia
481,818 people lived in At Ta'if in 2025. It is the 1151st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Saudi Arabia.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How At Ta'if grew
For every 10 people in At Ta'if in 1975, there were 40.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 697,670 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
At Ta'if through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in At Ta'if in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Saudi Arabia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: At Ta'if is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Saudi Arabia in 2025, 44 in all, led by Riyadh, 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, At Ta'if covered 109 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 Saudi Arabia
Its share of Saudi Arabia
Of every 100 people in Saudi Arabia in 2025, 1 lived in At Ta'if, which is 481,818 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Saudi Arabia; the coloured squares live in At Ta'if. 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
- 1147 Huzhou China483,361
- 1148 Yar Hussain Pakistan483,239
- 1149 Cuenca Ecuador482,272
- 1150 Tahta Egypt482,194
- 1151 At Ta'if481,818
- 1152 Villahermosa Mexico481,525
- 1153 Rizhao China481,315
- 1154 Siuri India480,595
- 1155 Huai'an District China480,263
In Saudi Arabia, 2025
- 354 Medina1,432,287
- 738 Al Ahsa725,760
- 990 Tabuk553,389
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt497,246
- 1151 At Ta'if481,818
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin302,534
- 2266 Zahrat Laban257,467
- 2393 Ash Sharai244,064
- 2479 Ha'il236,744
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 At Ta'if 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 At Ta'if 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