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Narus, 
South Sudan
212,131 people lived in Narus in 2025. It is the 2796th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in South Sudan.
Like every city on this site, Narus 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 Narus grew
For every 10 people in Narus in 2015, there were 37 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 348,912 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 2015, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Narus through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Narus in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 25 cities in South Sudan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Nimule. The ringed dot in colour is Narus; 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, Narus covered 7 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.3 km² of it.
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 South Sudan
Its share of South Sudan
Of every 100 people in South Sudan in 2025, 2 lived in Narus, which is 212,131 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in South Sudan; the coloured squares live in Narus. 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
- 2776 Shindand Afghanistan213,596
- 2788 Inayat Killi Pakistan212,640
- 2789 Auchi Nigeria212,634
- 2795 Am Timan Chad212,167
- 2796 Narus212,131
- 2797 Bandundu Democratic Republic of the Congo212,016
- 2799 Darauli India211,985
- 2801 Koliwar India211,825
- 2807 Dashoguz Turkmenistan211,569
In South Sudan, 2025
- 1453 Juba391,311
- 1740 Riwoto330,053
- 2156 Kapoeta270,167
- 2578 Yei228,087
- 2796 Narus212,131
- 5371 Imehejek114,546
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Narus are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Narus 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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