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Deir Ez Zor, 
Syria
259,771 people lived in Deir Ez Zor in 2025. It is the 2246th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Syria.
Like every city on this site, Deir Ez Zor 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 Deir Ez Zor grew
Count 10 people in Deir Ez Zor in 1975 and the same count gives 41.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 413,917 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Deir Ez Zor through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Deir Ez Zor in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Syria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Deir Ez Zor is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Syria in 2025, 37 in all, led by Damascus, 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, Deir Ez Zor covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 92%, and its people are 4.2 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 Syria
Its share of Syria
Of every 100 people in Syria in 2025, 1 lived in Deir Ez Zor, which is 259,771 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Syria; the coloured squares live in Deir Ez Zor. 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
- 2238 The Woodlands United States260,732
- 2243 Salinas [Santa Elena] Ecuador260,161
- 2244 Long Thành Vietnam260,047
- 2245 Khalilabad India259,783
- 2246 Deir Ez Zor259,771
- 2247 Hazel Dell United States259,716
- 2248 Jianhu China259,681
- 2249 Paarl South Africa259,665
- 2250 Vidisha India259,638
In Syria, 2025
- 554 Homs940,460
- 920 Latakia591,300
- 1520 Hama374,643
- 2010 Qamishli289,200
- 2246 Deir Ez Zor259,771
- 2471 Raqqa237,106
- 2494 Al-Hasakah235,085
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 Deir Ez Zor 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 Deir Ez Zor 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