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Buram, 
Sudan
537,169 people lived in Buram in 2025. It is the 1030th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Sudan.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Buram grew
Count 10 people in Buram in 1975 and the same count gives 57.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 918,395 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Buram through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Buram in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 105 cities in Sudan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Khartoum. The ringed dot in colour is Buram; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Buram covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.7 km² of it. That is 5 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 4 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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 100 people in Sudan in 2025, 1 lived in Buram, which is 537,169 people.
How to read this: shrink Sudan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Buram; 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
- 1026 Kupang Indonesia538,998
- 1027 Shaoyang China538,432
- 1028 Fengrun China538,206
- 1029 Xianyang China537,601
- 1030 Buram537,169
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil536,073
- 1032 Bettiah India535,979
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela535,164
- 1034 Ndola Zambia535,108
In Sudan, 2025
- 775 Kebkabiya694,415
- 826 Al-Ubayyid659,964
- 855 Al-Fashir633,077
- 944 Ad Da'ein581,730
- 1030 Buram537,169
- 1074 Port Sudan517,023
- 1140 Timerein486,586
- 1297 Kosti431,504
- 1400 Wad Madanī403,988
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 Buram 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 Buram 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