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Mellit, 
Sudan
207,693 people lived in Mellit in 2025. It is the 2869th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in Sudan.
Like every city on this site, Mellit is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mellit grew
For every 10 people in Mellit in 1985, there were 39.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 329,709 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Mellit through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mellit in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mellit is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Sudan in 2025, 105 in all, led by Khartoum, 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, Mellit covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 4 lived in Mellit, which is 207,693 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Sudan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mellit's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2857 Xai-Xai Mozambique208,703
- 2859 `Ar`ar Saudi Arabia208,320
- 2861 Uromi Nigeria208,157
- 2864 Kulaura Bangladesh208,075
- 2869 Mellit207,693
- 2875 Beni Mazar Egypt207,194
- 2888 Nablus Palestine206,378
- 2890 Pampore India206,302
- 2894 Suq al Shyukh Iraq206,015
In Sudan, 2025
- 2308 Shendi252,344
- 2459 Derudeib238,164
- 2513 El Geneina233,696
- 2523 Atbara232,808
- 2869 Mellit207,693
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan188,089
- 3355 Sinkāt180,082
- 3846 ad-Damer157,497
- 9869 Tokar62,788
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 Mellit are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Mellit 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