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Buraydah, 
Saudi Arabia
195,152 people lived in Buraydah in 2025. It is the 3079th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Saudi Arabia.
Like every city on this site, Buraydah 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 Buraydah grew
Where Buraydah had 10 people in 1990, it had 35.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 364,540 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Buraydah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Buraydah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Saudi Arabia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Saudi Arabia and its 44 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Riyadh). Buraydah 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, Buraydah covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 113 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 1,000 people in Saudi Arabia in 2025, 6 lived in Buraydah, which is 195,152 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Saudi Arabia; the coloured squares live in Buraydah. 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
- 3057 Kisantu Democratic Republic of the Congo195,949
- 3066 Củ Chi Vietnam195,626
- 3071 Kamalia Pakistan195,472
- 3072 Kot Addu Pakistan195,384
- 3079 Buraydah195,152
- 3080 Fayzabad Afghanistan195,148
- 3094 Kinzao Democratic Republic of the Congo193,973
- 3121 Musoma Tanzania192,622
- 3127 Nyunzu Democratic Republic of the Congo192,205
In Saudi Arabia, 2025
- 2393 Ash Sharai244,064
- 2479 Ha'il236,744
- 2859 `Ar`ar208,320
- 3025 Unaizah197,665
- 3079 Buraydah195,152
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 Buraydah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Buraydah 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