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Faya-Largeau, 
Chad
168,302 people lived in Faya-Largeau in 2025. It is the 3588th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Chad.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Faya-Largeau's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Faya-Largeau grew
Where Faya-Largeau had 10 people in 2010, it had 25.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 301,229 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Faya-Largeau through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Faya-Largeau in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Chad · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chad and its 37 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is N'Djaména). Faya-Largeau 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, Faya-Largeau covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.2 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres.
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 Chad
Its share of Chad
Of every 1,000 people in Chad in 2025, 8 lived in Faya-Largeau, which is 168,302 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Chad, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Faya-Largeau's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3547 Nampo North Korea170,683
- 3560 Shahrasti Bangladesh169,908
- 3568 Kefole Ethiopia169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo Ethiopia169,004
- 3588 Faya-Largeau168,302
- 3593 Mukubu Democratic Republic of the Congo168,033
- 3607 Gao Mali167,417
- 3611 Ulipur Bangladesh167,347
- 3613 Ngozi Burundi167,196
In Chad, 2025
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 Faya-Largeau are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Faya-Largeau 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