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Fez, 
Morocco
1,359,989 people lived in Fez in 2025. It is the 373rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Morocco.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Fez governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Fez grew
Where Fez had 10 people in 1975, it had 31 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Fez through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fez in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Morocco and its 73 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Casablanca). Fez 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, Fez covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Morocco
Its share of Morocco
Of every 100 people in Morocco in 2025, 4 lived in Fez, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Morocco; the coloured squares live in Fez. 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
- 369 Thrissur India1,371,675
- 370 Fort Lauderdale United States1,368,027
- 371 León Mexico1,367,521
- 372 Xining China1,360,245
- 373 Fez1,359,989
- 374 Vijayawada India1,351,098
- 375 Huaiyin District China1,349,827
- 376 Tiruchirappalli India1,349,040
- 377 Cochabamba Bolivia1,346,672
In Morocco, 2025
- 94 Casablanca4,457,471
- 240 Rabat2,069,287
- 373 Fez1,359,989
- 423 Tangier1,217,976
- 502 Marrakesh1,021,530
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 967 Kenitra566,802
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 Fez 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 Fez 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