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Derudeib, 
Sudan
238,164 people lived in Derudeib in 2025. It is the 2459th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Sudan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Derudeib governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Derudeib grew
Where Derudeib had 10 people in 2005, it had 30.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 367,754 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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
Derudeib through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Derudeib 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 Derudeib; 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, Derudeib covered 6 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.5 km² of it.
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 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 5 lived in Derudeib, which is 238,164 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Sudan; the coloured squares live in Derudeib. 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
- 2446 Corpus Christi United States239,855
- 2448 Dohrighat India239,251
- 2450 Đà Lạt Vietnam239,212
- 2458 Dosso Niger238,280
- 2459 Derudeib238,164
- 2460 Ota Japan237,865
- 2461 Diourbel Senegal237,795
- 2463 Jinju-si South Korea237,707
- 2464 Tal Afar Iraq237,454
In Sudan, 2025
- 1808 Al-Qadarif317,258
- 2087 Saraf `Umrah278,467
- 2300 Rabak253,166
- 2308 Shendi252,344
- 2459 Derudeib238,164
- 2513 El Geneina233,696
- 2523 Atbara232,808
- 2869 Mellit207,693
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan188,089
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Derudeib are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Derudeib 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