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Batna, 
Algeria
366,415 people lived in Batna in 2025. It is the 1566th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Algeria.
Like every city on this site, Batna 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 Batna grew
For every 10 people in Batna in 1975, there were 42.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 407,285 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: 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
Batna through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Batna in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Algeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Algeria and its 109 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Algiers). Batna 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, Batna covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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 Algeria
Its share of Algeria
Of every 1,000 people in Algeria in 2025, 8 lived in Batna, which is 366,415 people.
How to read this: shrink Algeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Batna; 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
- 1562 Tong'an China366,871
- 1563 Silvassa India366,589
- 1564 Tver Russia366,542
- 1565 Arak Iran366,442
- 1566 Batna366,415
- 1567 Dusuq Egypt366,123
- 1568 Colina de Laranjeiras Brazil365,960
- 1569 Mission Viejo United States365,221
- 1570 Yavatmal India363,908
In Algeria, 2025
- 998 Boumerdes550,700
- 1016 Djelfa542,414
- 1063 Constantine519,932
- 1168 Annaba474,367
- 1566 Batna366,415
- 1636 Setif349,825
- 1898 Tlemcen301,980
- 1912 Biskra300,313
- 2109 Koléa274,748
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 Batna 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 Batna 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