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Khamis Mushayt, 
Saudi Arabia
497,246 people lived in Khamis Mushayt in 2025. It is the 1113th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Saudi Arabia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Khamis Mushayt 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 Khamis Mushayt grew
Count 10 people in Khamis Mushayt in 1990 and the same count gives 67.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 528,114 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Khamis Mushayt through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khamis Mushayt in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Saudi Arabia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Saudi Arabia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Riyadh. The ringed dot in colour is Khamis Mushayt; 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, Khamis Mushayt covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 6.7 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 Saudi Arabia
Its share of Saudi Arabia
Of every 100 people in Saudi Arabia in 2025, 1 lived in Khamis Mushayt, which is 497,246 people.
How to read this: shrink Saudi Arabia to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Khamis Mushayt; 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
- 1109 Hamedan Iran498,337
- 1110 General Santos Philippines498,098
- 1111 Vũng Tàu Vietnam498,010
- 1112 Balung Indonesia497,754
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt497,246
- 1114 Yangjiang China496,608
- 1115 Bloemfontein South Africa496,295
- 1116 Sousse Tunisia495,877
- 1117 Huludao China495,819
In Saudi Arabia, 2025
- 289 Mecca1,692,152
- 354 Medina1,432,287
- 738 Al Ahsa725,760
- 990 Tabuk553,389
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt497,246
- 1151 At Ta'if481,818
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin302,534
- 2266 Zahrat Laban257,467
- 2393 Ash Sharai244,064
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 Khamis Mushayt are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Khamis Mushayt 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