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Sinkāt, 
Sudan
180,082 people lived in Sinkāt in 2025. It is the 3355th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th largest in Sudan.
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 Sinkāt grew
For every 10 people in Sinkāt in 2000, there were 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 309,098 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. 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: 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
Sinkāt through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sinkāt 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). Sinkāt 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, Sinkāt covered 12 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.0 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres.
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 Sudan
Its share of Sudan
Of every 1,000 people in Sudan in 2025, 3 lived in Sinkāt, which is 180,082 people.
How to read this: shrink Sudan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Sinkāt; 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
- 3313 Kotli Pakistan181,837
- 3314 Al-Wasitah Egypt181,776
- 3335 Taraz Kazakhstan180,844
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat Egypt180,286
- 3355 Sinkāt180,082
- 3375 Nouadhibou Mauritania179,362
- 3383 Bahubal Bangladesh178,981
- 3400 Oghi Pakistan177,887
- 3406 Dearborn Heights United States177,423
In Sudan, 2025
- 2513 El Geneina233,696
- 2523 Atbara232,808
- 2869 Mellit207,693
- 3212 Ed Al Fursan188,089
- 3355 Sinkāt180,082
- 3846 ad-Damer157,497
- 9869 Tokar62,788
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 Sinkāt 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 Sinkāt 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