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Sohar, 
Oman
154,765 people lived in Sohar in 2025. It is the 3916th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Oman.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Sohar 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 Sohar grew
Count 10 people in Sohar in 2020 and the same count gives 24.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 384,258 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, 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
Sohar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sohar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Oman · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sohar is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Oman in 2025, 12 in all, led by Muscat, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Sohar covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.5 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Oman
Its share of Oman
Of every 100 people in Oman in 2025, 3 lived in Sohar, which is 154,765 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Oman, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Sohar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3883 Madaoua Niger156,053
- 3886 Musanze Rwanda155,984
- 3895 Katoro Tanzania155,625
- 3914 Sodo Ethiopia154,912
- 3916 Sohar154,765
- 3917 Thatta Pakistan154,717
- 3995 Likuni Malawi151,695
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang Indonesia150,872
- 4034 Mawza` Yemen150,293
In Oman, 2025
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Sohar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Sohar 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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