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Jafar Muhammad Ali, 
Iraq
570,883 people lived in Jafar Muhammad Ali in 2025. It is the 960th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Iraq.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jafar Muhammad Ali grew
For every 10 people in Jafar Muhammad Ali in 1975, there were 38.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 835,975 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: 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
Jafar Muhammad Ali through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jafar Muhammad Ali in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iraq · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 88 cities in Iraq in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Baghdad. The ringed dot in colour is Jafar Muhammad Ali; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Jafar Muhammad Ali covered 75 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.0 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Iraq
Its share of Iraq
Of every 100 people in Iraq in 2025, 1 lived in Jafar Muhammad Ali, which is 570,883 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Iraq; the coloured squares live in Jafar Muhammad Ali. 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
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan Pakistan572,505
- 957 Caleta Sanitaria Peru572,154
- 958 Alwar India571,972
- 959 Jhang Pakistan571,359
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali570,883
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás Brazil570,302
- 962 Krasnoyarsk Russia569,604
- 963 Selong Indonesia568,139
- 964 Suez Egypt567,866
In Iraq, 2025
- 645 Zakho814,526
- 647 Nasiriyah813,799
- 648 Al Mushahidah813,506
- 836 Amarah645,612
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali570,883
- 1132 Al-Kut491,247
- 1240 Ramadi449,183
- 1443 As Samawah393,865
- 1586 Fallujah359,695
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 Jafar Muhammad Ali 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 Jafar Muhammad Ali 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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