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Port Sudan, 
Sudan
517,023 people lived in Port Sudan in 2025. It is the 1074th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Sudan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Port Sudan governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Port Sudan grew
Count 10 people in Port Sudan in 1980 and the same count gives 88.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 727,173 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Port Sudan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Port Sudan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sudan and its 105 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Khartoum). Port Sudan 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, Port Sudan covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 9.7 times its size, and its people are 8.8 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 100 people in Sudan in 2025, 1 lived in Port Sudan, which is 517,023 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Sudan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Port Sudan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1070 Satna India517,402
- 1071 Bukit Mertajam Malaysia517,326
- 1072 Manono Democratic Republic of the Congo517,304
- 1073 Kerman Iran517,216
- 1074 Port Sudan517,023
- 1075 Concepción Chile516,741
- 1076 Minna Nigeria516,451
- 1077 Lobito Angola516,153
- 1078 Zhuji China515,549
In Sudan, 2025
- 826 Al-Ubayyid659,964
- 855 Al-Fashir633,077
- 944 Ad Da'ein581,730
- 1030 Buram537,169
- 1074 Port Sudan517,023
- 1140 Timerein486,586
- 1297 Kosti431,504
- 1400 Wad Madanī403,988
- 1457 Kassala390,525
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 Port Sudan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Port Sudan 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