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Ras Al Khaimah, 
United Arab Emirates
345,621 people lived in Ras Al Khaimah in 2025. It is the 1656th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in the United Arab Emirates.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ras Al Khaimah 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 Ras Al Khaimah grew
For every 10 people in Ras Al Khaimah in 2000, there were 56 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 510,221 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Ras Al Khaimah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ras Al Khaimah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United Arab Emirates · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the United Arab Emirates and its 15 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Dubai). Ras Al Khaimah 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, Ras Al Khaimah covered 132 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 74 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 5.6 times as many.
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 the United Arab Emirates
Its share of the United Arab Emirates
Of every 100 people in the United Arab Emirates in 2025, 3 lived in Ras Al Khaimah, which is 345,621 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in the United Arab Emirates; the coloured squares live in Ras Al Khaimah. 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
- 1652 Francisco Morato Brazil346,105
- 1653 Ngandajika Democratic Republic of the Congo345,996
- 1654 Bo Sierra Leone345,988
- 1655 Safi Morocco345,865
- 1656 Ras Al Khaimah345,621
- 1657 Bukalasi Uganda345,288
- 1658 Ngaoundéré Cameroon345,148
- 1659 Jamalpur Bangladesh345,132
- 1660 Dili Timor-Leste345,038
In the United Arab Emirates, 2025
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 Ras Al Khaimah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Ras Al Khaimah 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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