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Safi, 
Morocco
345,865 people lived in Safi in 2025. It is the 1655th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Morocco.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Safi grew
Where Safi had 10 people in 1975, it had 24.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 408,790 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Safi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Safi 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). Safi 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, Safi covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.4 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 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 1,000 people in Morocco in 2025, 9 lived in Safi, which is 345,865 people.
How to read this: shrink Morocco to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Safi; 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
- 1651 Galle Sri Lanka346,263
- 1652 Francisco Morato Brazil346,105
- 1653 Ngandajika Democratic Republic of the Congo345,996
- 1654 Bo Sierra Leone345,988
- 1655 Safi345,865
- 1656 Ras Al Khaimah United Arab Emirates345,621
- 1657 Bukalasi Uganda345,288
- 1658 Ngaoundéré Cameroon345,148
- 1659 Jamalpur Bangladesh345,132
In Morocco, 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 Safi 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 Safi 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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