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Marrakesh, 
Morocco
1,021,530 people lived in Marrakesh in 2025. It is the 502nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Morocco.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Marrakesh governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Marrakesh grew
Count 10 people in Marrakesh in 1975 and the same count gives 33.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Marrakesh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Marrakesh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 73 cities in Morocco in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Casablanca. The ringed dot in colour is Marrakesh; 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, Marrakesh covered 75 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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, 3 lived in Marrakesh, which is 1.0 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Morocco, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Marrakesh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 498 Mingora Pakistan1,024,813
- 499 Maceió Brazil1,023,645
- 500 Rotterdam Netherlands1,023,590
- 501 Karbala Iraq1,022,893
- 502 Marrakesh1,021,530
- 503 Otite Nigeria1,020,218
- 504 Tanta Egypt1,018,577
- 505 Luohe China1,018,295
- 506 Binhai New Area China1,017,230
In Morocco, 2025
- 94 Casablanca4,457,471
- 240 Rabat2,069,287
- 373 Fez1,359,989
- 423 Tangier1,217,976
- 502 Marrakesh1,021,530
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 967 Kenitra566,802
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 Marrakesh 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 Marrakesh 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