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Torit, 
South Sudan
424,731 people lived in Torit in 2025. It is the 1316th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in South 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Torit grew
For every 10 people in Torit in 2005, there were 79.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 734,449 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Torit through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Torit in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Sudan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Torit is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of South Sudan in 2025, 25 in all, led by Nimule, 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, Torit covered 24 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.7 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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 South Sudan
Its share of South Sudan
Of every 100 people in South Sudan in 2025, 3 lived in Torit, which is 424,731 people.
How to read this: shrink South Sudan to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Torit; 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
- 1312 Orenburg Russia426,263
- 1313 Gresik Indonesia426,246
- 1314 Longquanyi China426,144
- 1315 Dere Nigeria425,674
- 1316 Torit424,731
- 1317 Ranghulu China424,460
- 1318 Ziyang China424,328
- 1319 Shivamogga India423,880
- 1320 Deoghar India423,674
In South Sudan, 2025
- 945 Nimule581,444
- 1316 Torit424,731
- 1453 Juba391,311
- 1740 Riwoto330,053
- 2156 Kapoeta270,167
- 2578 Yei228,087
- 2796 Narus212,131
- 5371 Imehejek114,546
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 Torit are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Torit 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