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Saraf `Umrah, 
Sudan
278,467 people lived in Saraf `Umrah in 2025. It is the 2087th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Sudan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Saraf `Umrah 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 Saraf `Umrah grew
For every 10 people in Saraf `Umrah in 1980, there were 47 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 485,285 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. 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
Saraf `Umrah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Saraf `Umrah 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). Saraf `Umrah 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, Saraf `Umrah covered 17 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.6 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown by 60%, and its people have grown by 19%.
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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 5 lived in Saraf `Umrah, which is 278,467 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Sudan; the coloured squares live in Saraf `Umrah. 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
- 2080 Ekma India279,229
- 2081 Salalah Oman279,161
- 2082 Medininagar India278,795
- 2083 Kayes Mali278,727
- 2087 Saraf `Umrah278,467
- 2091 Murmansk Russia277,693
- 2092 Dhaulpur India277,498
- 2093 Taunggyi Myanmar277,312
- 2095 Iwo Nigeria277,101
In Sudan, 2025
- 1400 Wad Madanī403,988
- 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
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 Saraf `Umrah 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 Saraf `Umrah 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