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Nablus, 
Palestine
206,378 people lived in Nablus in 2025. It is the 2888th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th 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 Nablus grew
Where Nablus had 10 people in 1985, it had 37 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 307,712 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. 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
Nablus through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nablus in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Palestine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 13 cities in Palestine in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being East Jerusalem. The ringed dot in colour is Nablus; 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, Nablus covered 34 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.9 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Palestine
Its share of Palestine
Of every 100 people in Palestine in 2025, 4 lived in Nablus, which is 206,378 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Palestine; the coloured squares live in Nablus. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2861 Uromi Nigeria208,157
- 2864 Kulaura Bangladesh208,075
- 2869 Mellit Sudan207,693
- 2875 Beni Mazar Egypt207,194
- 2888 Nablus206,378
- 2890 Pampore India206,302
- 2894 Suq al Shyukh Iraq206,015
- 2897 Luena Democratic Republic of the Congo205,691
- 2902 Havelian Cantonment Pakistan205,608
In Palestine, 2025
- 494 Gaza1,038,285
- 905 Khan Yunis601,421
- 1396 Hebron405,079
- 1799 Deir el-Balah319,915
- 2888 Nablus206,378
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 Nablus 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 Nablus 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 →
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