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Meknes, 
Morocco
722,852 people lived in Meknes in 2025. It is the 743rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Morocco.
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 Meknes grew
Count 10 people in Meknes in 1975 and the same count gives 22.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 754,132 people in 2050.
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
Meknes through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Meknes 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 Meknes; 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, Meknes covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 18 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 2.3 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Morocco
Its share of Morocco
Of every 100 people in Morocco in 2025, 2 lived in Meknes, which is 722,852 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 Meknes's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 739 Suqian China725,070
- 740 Louhajang Bangladesh725,057
- 741 Kamina Democratic Republic of the Congo724,982
- 742 Bouaké Côte d’Ivoire724,691
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 744 Yingxia China719,432
- 745 Gulin China718,364
- 746 Patiala India718,308
- 747 Linchuan China718,050
In Morocco, 2025
- 373 Fez1,359,989
- 423 Tangier1,217,976
- 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 Meknes 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 Meknes 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