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Kebkabiya, 
Sudan
694,415 people lived in Kebkabiya in 2025. It is the 775th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Sudan.
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 Kebkabiya's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kebkabiya grew
For every 10 people in Kebkabiya in 1975, there were 59.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Kebkabiya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kebkabiya in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kebkabiya is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Sudan in 2025, 105 in all, led by Khartoum, 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, Kebkabiya covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.8 km² of it. That is 5 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 6 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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 100 people in Sudan in 2025, 1 lived in Kebkabiya, which is 694,415 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Sudan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kebkabiya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 771 Urmia Iran698,050
- 772 Donghe China696,169
- 773 Hsinchu Taiwan695,677
- 774 Shahjahanpur India694,580
- 775 Kebkabiya694,415
- 776 Dazhou China693,707
- 777 Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan693,373
- 778 Panvel India692,036
- 779 Chŏngjin North Korea690,409
In Sudan, 2025
- 56 Khartoum6,809,355
- 548 Nyala950,803
- 775 Kebkabiya694,415
- 826 Al-Ubayyid659,964
- 855 Al-Fashir633,077
- 944 Ad Da'ein581,730
- 1030 Buram537,169
- 1074 Port Sudan517,023
- 1140 Timerein486,586
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 Kebkabiya 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 Kebkabiya 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