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Jerash, 
Jordan
114,256 people lived in Jerash in 2025. It is the 5387th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Jordan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Jerash governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jerash grew
Where Jerash had 10 people in 2000, it had 19.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 344,826 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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
Jerash through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jerash in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Jordan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 15 cities in Jordan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Amman. The ringed dot in colour is Jerash; 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, Jerash covered 14 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.2 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Jordan
Its share of Jordan
Of every 1,000 people in Jordan in 2025, 10 lived in Jerash, which is 114,256 people.
How to read this: shrink Jordan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Jerash; 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
- 5167 Kafr Ibrash Egypt118,945
- 5229 Lal Afghanistan117,617
- 5258 Golbahar Afghanistan116,780
- 5371 Imehejek South Sudan114,546
- 5387 Jerash114,256
- 5474 Irba Ethiopia112,673
- 5479 Việt Trì Vietnam112,591
- 5488 Qeysar Afghanistan112,398
- 5613 Gouripur Bangladesh109,980
In Jordan, 2025
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 Jerash are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Jerash 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