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Tabuk, 
Saudi Arabia
553,389 people lived in Tabuk in 2025. It is the 990th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Saudi Arabia.
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 Tabuk's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tabuk grew
For every 10 people in Tabuk in 1990, there were 101.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 926,478 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Tabuk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tabuk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Saudi Arabia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 44 cities in Saudi Arabia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Riyadh. The ringed dot in colour is Tabuk; 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, Tabuk covered 94 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people are 10.2 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Saudi Arabia
Its share of Saudi Arabia
Of every 100 people in Saudi Arabia in 2025, 2 lived in Tabuk, which is 553,389 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Saudi Arabia, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tabuk's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 986 Malacca City Malaysia555,703
- 987 Ambon Indonesia555,651
- 988 Yitang China555,576
- 989 Dresden Germany554,612
- 990 Tabuk553,389
- 991 Rampur India553,229
- 992 M'bour Senegal553,170
- 993 Yaroslavl Russia553,086
- 994 Tampa United States551,988
In Saudi Arabia, 2025
- 212 Dammam2,335,647
- 289 Mecca1,692,152
- 354 Medina1,432,287
- 738 Al Ahsa725,760
- 990 Tabuk553,389
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt497,246
- 1151 At Ta'if481,818
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin302,534
- 2266 Zahrat Laban257,467
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 Tabuk are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Tabuk 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