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Bajil, 
Yemen
202,715 people lived in Bajil in 2025. It is the 2940th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th largest in Yemen.
Like every city on this site, Bajil is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bajil grew
Where Bajil had 10 people in 1985, it had 33 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 338,009 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 1985, 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
Bajil through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bajil in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bajil 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, Bajil covered 10 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.1 km² of it. That is 5 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 10%, and its people have grown by 8%.
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 Bajil, which is 202,715 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Yemen; the coloured squares live in Bajil. 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
- 2924 Asarganj India204,072
- 2926 Livingstone Zambia203,972
- 2927 Muktagacha Bangladesh203,965
- 2933 Duekoue Côte d’Ivoire203,323
- 2940 Bajil202,715
- 2948 Supaul India202,024
- 2957 Sakhakot Pakistan201,598
- 2959 Iringa Tanzania201,525
- 2964 Pasrur Pakistan201,450
In Yemen, 2025
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1886 Yarim304,301
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2940 Bajil202,715
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan196,086
- 3150 Al `Udayn190,661
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
- 3433 Hayfan176,151
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bajil are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Bajil 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