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Rabak, 
Sudan
253,166 people lived in Rabak in 2025. It is the 2300th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Sudan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Rabak governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rabak grew
Where Rabak had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 326,159 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: 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
Rabak through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rabak 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). Rabak 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, Rabak covered 37 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.6 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 5 lived in Rabak, which is 253,166 people.
How to read this: shrink Sudan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Rabak; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2293 Gaborone Botswana254,517
- 2294 Pathein Myanmar253,953
- 2295 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina253,857
- 2299 Borigaon India253,566
- 2300 Rabak253,166
- 2302 Hadejia Nigeria252,778
- 2303 Azare Nigeria252,755
- 2308 Shendi252,344
- 2310 Rosetta Egypt252,147
In Sudan, 2025
- 1457 Kassala390,525
- 1491 Kas381,286
- 1808 Al-Qadarif317,258
- 2087 Saraf `Umrah278,467
- 2300 Rabak253,166
- 2308 Shendi252,344
- 2459 Derudeib238,164
- 2513 El Geneina233,696
- 2523 Atbara232,808
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 Rabak 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 Rabak 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