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Oujda, 
Morocco
583,116 people lived in Oujda in 2025. It is the 940th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Morocco.
Like every city on this site, Oujda is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Oujda grew
Where Oujda had 10 people in 1975, it had 23.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 597,274 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Oujda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Oujda in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Morocco and its 73 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Casablanca). Oujda is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Oujda covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Oujda, which is 583,116 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 Oujda's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 936 Cangzhou China585,507
- 937 Adama Ethiopia584,854
- 938 Ujjain India583,405
- 939 Madalla Nigeria583,367
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 941 Bunia Democratic Republic of the Congo582,792
- 942 Lodz Poland582,659
- 943 Rajamahendravaram India582,520
- 944 Ad Da'ein Sudan581,730
In Morocco, 2025
- 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 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 Oujda 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 Oujda 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