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Khan Yunis, 
Palestine
601,421 people lived in Khan Yunis in 2025. It is the 905th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Palestine.
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 Khan Yunis grew
For every 10 people in Khan Yunis in 1975, there were 77.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 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: 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
Khan Yunis through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khan Yunis in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Palestine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Khan Yunis is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Palestine in 2025, 13 in all, led by East Jerusalem, 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, Khan Yunis covered 107 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 10.4 times its size, and its people are 7.8 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 Palestine
Its share of Palestine
Of every 100 people in Palestine in 2025, 11 lived in Khan Yunis, which is 601,421 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Palestine, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Khan Yunis's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 901 Tampico Mexico603,035
- 902 Pereira Colombia602,831
- 903 Changzhi China602,771
- 904 Tyumen Russia602,535
- 905 Khan Yunis601,421
- 906 Jangalpara India600,501
- 907 Leshan China600,101
- 908 Maoming China599,504
- 909 Chifeng China599,299
In Palestine, 2025
- 467 East Jerusalem1,105,567
- 494 Gaza1,038,285
- 905 Khan Yunis601,421
- 1396 Hebron405,079
- 1799 Deir el-Balah319,915
- 2888 Nablus206,378
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 Khan Yunis 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 Khan Yunis 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