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Ed Al Fursan, 
Sudan
188,089 people lived in Ed Al Fursan in 2025. It is the 3212th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th 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 Ed Al Fursan grew
Count 10 people in Ed Al Fursan in 1980 and the same count gives 30.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 326,895 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Ed Al Fursan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ed Al Fursan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sudan and its 105 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Khartoum). Ed Al Fursan 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, Ed Al Fursan covered 8 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.1 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 4 lived in Ed Al Fursan, which is 188,089 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Sudan; the coloured squares live in Ed Al Fursan. 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
- 3190 Ar Rijad Yemen188,715
- 3194 Al Qurna Iraq188,604
- 3202 Nankana Sahib Pakistan188,474
- 3209 Amassoma Nigeria188,265
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan188,089
- 3214 Guider Cameroon187,887
- 3217 Domariaganj India187,658
- 3224 Cafunfo Angola187,253
- 3232 Jayapura Indonesia186,856
In Sudan, 2025
- 2459 Derudeib238,164
- 2513 El Geneina233,696
- 2523 Atbara232,808
- 2869 Mellit207,693
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan188,089
- 3355 Sinkāt180,082
- 3846 ad-Damer157,497
- 9869 Tokar62,788
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 Ed Al Fursan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Ed Al Fursan 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