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Salalah, 
Oman
279,161 people lived in Salalah in 2025. It is the 2081st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Oman.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Salalah's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Salalah grew
Count 10 people in Salalah in 2010 and the same count gives 55.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 446,465 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Salalah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Salalah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Oman · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 12 cities in Oman in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Muscat. The ringed dot in colour is Salalah; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Salalah covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 5.6 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 Oman
Its share of Oman
Of every 100 people in Oman in 2025, 5 lived in Salalah, which is 279,161 people.
How to read this: shrink Oman to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Salalah; 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
- 2075 Southend-on-Sea United Kingdom280,158
- 2076 Copperfield United States279,805
- 2079 Mweka Democratic Republic of the Congo279,312
- 2080 Ekma India279,229
- 2081 Salalah279,161
- 2082 Medininagar India278,795
- 2083 Kayes Mali278,727
- 2087 Saraf `Umrah Sudan278,467
- 2091 Murmansk Russia277,693
In Oman, 2025
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Salalah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Salalah 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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