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Hama, 
Syria
374,643 people lived in Hama in 2025. It is the 1520th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Syria.
Like every city on this site, Hama is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hama grew
Where Hama had 10 people in 1975, it had 25.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 538,648 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Hama through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hama in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Syria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Hama is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Syria in 2025, 37 in all, led by Damascus, 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, Hama covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 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 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 Syria
Its share of Syria
Of every 100 people in Syria in 2025, 1 lived in Hama, which is 374,643 people.
How to read this: shrink Syria to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Hama; 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
- 1516 Mariupol Ukraine375,504
- 1517 Liège Belgium375,138
- 1518 İskenderun Türkiye375,056
- 1519 Haimen China374,644
- 1520 Hama374,643
- 1521 Numazu Japan374,507
- 1522 Hrodna Belarus374,464
- 1523 Debandi India374,423
- 1524 Pakpattan Pakistan374,389
In Syria, 2025
- 99 Damascus4,287,746
- 168 Aleppo2,922,277
- 554 Homs940,460
- 920 Latakia591,300
- 1520 Hama374,643
- 2010 Qamishli289,200
- 2246 Deir Ez Zor259,771
- 2471 Raqqa237,106
- 2494 Al-Hasakah235,085
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Hama 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 Hama 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