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Tangier, 
Morocco
1,217,976 people lived in Tangier in 2025. It is the 423rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Morocco.
Like every city on this site, Tangier is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tangier grew
Count 10 people in Tangier in 1975 and the same count gives 47.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Tangier through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tangier in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 73 cities in Morocco in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Casablanca. The ringed dot in colour is Tangier; 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, Tangier covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 4.8 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 Morocco
Its share of Morocco
Of every 100 people in Morocco in 2025, 3 lived in Tangier, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Morocco, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tangier's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 419 Vitória Brazil1,226,500
- 420 Maiduguri Nigeria1,225,505
- 421 Dehradun India1,219,198
- 422 Ashgabat Turkmenistan1,218,323
- 423 Tangier1,217,976
- 424 Ganzhou China1,216,248
- 425 Ciudad Juárez Mexico1,212,370
- 426 Begusarai India1,210,200
- 427 Pekanbaru Indonesia1,208,872
In Morocco, 2025
- 94 Casablanca4,457,471
- 240 Rabat2,069,287
- 373 Fez1,359,989
- 423 Tangier1,217,976
- 502 Marrakesh1,021,530
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 967 Kenitra566,802
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 Tangier 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 Tangier 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