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Sarh, 
Chad
276,978 people lived in Sarh in 2025. It is the 2096th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Chad.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Sarh governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sarh grew
Where Sarh had 10 people in 1975, it had 50.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 412,889 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: 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
Sarh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sarh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Chad · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 37 cities in Chad in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being N'Djaména. The ringed dot in colour is Sarh; 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, Sarh covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.2 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 5.1 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 Chad
Its share of Chad
Of every 100 people in Chad in 2025, 1 lived in Sarh, which is 276,978 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Chad, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Sarh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2091 Murmansk Russia277,693
- 2092 Dhaulpur India277,498
- 2093 Taunggyi Myanmar277,312
- 2095 Iwo Nigeria277,101
- 2096 Sarh276,978
- 2097 Binangonan Philippines276,785
- 2099 Legazpi Philippines276,662
- 2101 San Pablo Philippines276,250
- 2103 Jiroft Iran276,001
In Chad, 2025
- 257 N'Djaména1,934,909
- 1254 Abéché443,793
- 2063 Moundou281,943
- 2096 Sarh276,978
- 2647 Mongo223,205
- 2795 Am Timan212,167
- 3588 Faya-Largeau168,302
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 Sarh 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 Sarh 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