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Khayran, 
Yemen
138,244 people lived in Khayran in 2025. It is the 4404th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th largest in Yemen.
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 Khayran grew
Count 10 people in Khayran in 2010 and the same count gives 25 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 409,098 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Khayran through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khayran in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Khayran is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Yemen in 2025, 111 in all, led by Sana'a, 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, Khayran covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.1 km² of it.
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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 3 lived in Khayran, which is 138,244 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Yemen, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Khayran's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4351 Al Kifl Iraq140,343
- 4370 Haidarganj India139,637
- 4384 Kurgan Russia139,073
- 4389 Rubuchi Nigeria138,912
- 4404 Khayran138,244
- 4439 Lwebo Democratic Republic of the Congo137,354
- 4501 Luiza Democratic Republic of the Congo135,439
- 4522 Okposi Nigeria134,677
- 4537 Marawi Philippines134,181
In Yemen, 2025
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh166,653
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4339 Manazil Baradan140,682
- 4404 Khayran138,244
- 4542 `Adan Barakah134,066
- 4839 Rihab126,332
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah80,686
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 Khayran are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Khayran 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