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Nazareth, 
Israel
265,611 people lived in Nazareth in 2025. It is the 2195th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Israel.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Nazareth's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nazareth grew
Count 10 people in Nazareth in 1975 and the same count gives 16.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 437,702 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Nazareth through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nazareth in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Israel · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 25 cities in Israel in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Tel Aviv. The ringed dot in colour is Nazareth; 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, Nazareth covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 66%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Israel
Its share of Israel
Of every 100 people in Israel in 2025, 3 lived in Nazareth, which is 265,611 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Israel; the coloured squares live in Nazareth. 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
- 2187 Yaguang China266,899
- 2188 Bihpur India266,585
- 2189 Bijnor India266,240
- 2192 Porlamar Venezuela265,905
- 2195 Nazareth265,611
- 2196 Kaithal India265,502
- 2197 El Oued Algeria265,408
- 2200 Jining China265,293
- 2203 Nautan India264,437
In Israel, 2025
- 563 Jerusalem920,478
- 1143 Haifa484,770
- 2032 Ashdod286,310
- 2039 Modiin-Maccabim-Reut285,763
- 2195 Nazareth265,611
- 2262 Netanya257,714
- 2334 Rehovot249,925
- 2767 Beersheba214,104
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 Nazareth 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 Nazareth 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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