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Kenitra, 
Morocco
566,802 people lived in Kenitra in 2025. It is the 967th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Morocco.
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 Kenitra'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 Kenitra grew
Count 10 people in Kenitra in 1975 and the same count gives 38 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 660,793 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Kenitra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kenitra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kenitra is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Morocco in 2025, 73 in all, led by Casablanca, 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, Kenitra covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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 Morocco
Its share of Morocco
Of every 100 people in Morocco in 2025, 1 lived in Kenitra, which is 566,802 people.
How to read this: shrink Morocco to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kenitra; 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
- 963 Selong Indonesia568,139
- 964 Suez Egypt567,866
- 965 Norfolk United States567,473
- 966 Zaporizhzhia Ukraine566,844
- 967 Kenitra566,802
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
In Morocco, 2025
- 502 Marrakesh1,021,530
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 967 Kenitra566,802
- 1185 Tétouan469,642
- 1655 Safi345,865
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 Kenitra 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 Kenitra 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