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Hafar Al-Batin, 
Saudi Arabia
302,534 people lived in Hafar Al-Batin in 2025. It is the 1895th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Saudi Arabia.
Like every city on this site, Hafar Al-Batin is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hafar Al-Batin grew
For every 10 people in Hafar Al-Batin in 1995, there were 49.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 392,830 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
Hafar Al-Batin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hafar Al-Batin in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Saudi Arabia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Hafar Al-Batin is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Saudi Arabia in 2025, 44 in all, led by Riyadh, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Hafar Al-Batin covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 82 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 5 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 Saudi Arabia
Its share of Saudi Arabia
Of every 1,000 people in Saudi Arabia in 2025, 9 lived in Hafar Al-Batin, which is 302,534 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Saudi Arabia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Hafar Al-Batin's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan Egypt303,302
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski Russia302,890
- 1893 Busto Arsizio Italy302,759
- 1894 Al-Santa Egypt302,572
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin302,534
- 1896 Sivakasi India302,256
- 1897 Zhaotong China302,089
- 1898 Tlemcen Algeria301,980
- 1899 Orai India301,946
In Saudi Arabia, 2025
- 738 Al Ahsa725,760
- 990 Tabuk553,389
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt497,246
- 1151 At Ta'if481,818
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin302,534
- 2266 Zahrat Laban257,467
- 2393 Ash Sharai244,064
- 2479 Ha'il236,744
- 2859 `Ar`ar208,320
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 Hafar Al-Batin are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Hafar Al-Batin 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