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Tirana, 
Albania
Tiranë
833,020 people lived in Tirana in 2025. It is the 632nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Albania, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Tirana governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
In its own language: Tiranë.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tirana grew
For every 10 people in Tirana in 1975, there were 59.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 756,135 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Tirana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tirana in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Albania · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 6 cities in Albania in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there. The ringed dot in colour is Tirana; 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, Tirana covered 105 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people are 6 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 Albania
Its share of Albania
Of every 100 people in Albania in 2025, 30 lived in Tirana, which is 833,020 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Albania; the coloured squares live in Tirana. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 628 Warangal India837,561
- 629 Kermanshah Iran837,230
- 630 Tengzhou China834,697
- 631 Campo Grande Brazil833,403
- 632 Tirana833,020
- 633 Nsukka Nigeria830,196
- 634 Hodeidah Yemen827,012
- 635 Ibb Yemen826,974
- 636 Imphal India824,757
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 Tirana 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 Tirana 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