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Homs, 
Syria
940,460 people lived in Homs in 2025. It is the 554th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Syria.
Like every city on this site, Homs 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 Homs grew
For every 10 people in Homs in 1975, there were 50.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Homs through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Homs in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Syria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Syria and its 37 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Damascus). Homs 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, Homs covered 114 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 5.1 times as many.
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 Syria
Its share of Syria
Of every 100 people in Syria in 2025, 4 lived in Homs, which is 940,460 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Syria, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Homs's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 550 Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo948,948
- 551 Krishnanagar India948,788
- 552 Namangan Uzbekistan947,465
- 553 Linfen China945,174
- 554 Homs940,460
- 555 Bucaramanga Colombia939,291
- 556 Samarqand Uzbekistan932,219
- 557 Banjarmasin Indonesia930,711
- 558 Ma'anshan China929,836
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 Homs 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 Homs 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