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Hawrah, 
Yemen
389,641 people lived in Hawrah in 2025. It is the 1462nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Yemen.
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 Hawrah's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hawrah grew
For every 10 people in Hawrah in 1995, there were 58.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 769,788 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. 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: 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
Hawrah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hawrah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yemen and its 111 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Sana'a). Hawrah 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, Hawrah covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.2 km² of it.
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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 9 lived in Hawrah, which is 389,641 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Yemen, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Hawrah's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1458 Wenling China390,282
- 1459 Soyo Angola389,945
- 1460 Rangkasbitung Indonesia389,934
- 1461 Sikasso Mali389,804
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj India389,533
- 1464 Iseyin Nigeria389,526
- 1465 Phuket Thailand389,376
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima Egypt389,333
In Yemen, 2025
- 635 Ibb826,974
- 754 Bi'r Rubak712,438
- 1045 'Adan530,573
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1886 Yarim304,301
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2940 Bajil202,715
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan196,086
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 Hawrah 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 Hawrah 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 →
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