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East Jerusalem, 
Palestine
Al-Quds
1,105,567 people lived in East Jerusalem in 2025. It is the 467th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Palestine, where it is the capital.
Like every city on this site, East Jerusalem is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
In its own language: Al-Quds.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How East Jerusalem grew
For every 10 people in East Jerusalem in 1975, there were 81.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
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
East Jerusalem through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in East Jerusalem in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Palestine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 13 cities in Palestine in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there. The ringed dot in colour is East Jerusalem; 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, East Jerusalem covered 182 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.7 times its size, and its people are 8.2 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 Palestine
Its share of Palestine
Of every 100 people in Palestine in 2025, 20 lived in East Jerusalem, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: shrink Palestine to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in East Jerusalem; 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
- 463 Belgrade Serbia1,121,410
- 464 Enugu Nigeria1,115,303
- 465 Berhampore India1,109,144
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul] United States1,107,243
- 467 East Jerusalem1,105,567
- 468 Solapur India1,102,702
- 469 Tianjia‘an China1,100,258
- 470 Yancheng China1,093,432
- 471 Natal Brazil1,089,473
In Palestine, 2025
- 467 East Jerusalem1,105,567
- 494 Gaza1,038,285
- 905 Khan Yunis601,421
- 1396 Hebron405,079
- 1799 Deir el-Balah319,915
- 2888 Nablus206,378
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 East Jerusalem 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 East Jerusalem 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 →
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