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Tripoli, 
Lebanon
377,937 people lived in Tripoli in 2025. It is the 1502nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Lebanon.
Like every city on this site, Tripoli 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 Tripoli grew
Count 10 people in Tripoli in 1980 and the same count gives 46.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 470,605 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Tripoli through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tripoli in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Lebanon · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tripoli is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Lebanon in 2025, 9 in all, led by Beirut, 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, Tripoli covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.0 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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 Lebanon
Its share of Lebanon
Of every 100 people in Lebanon in 2025, 6 lived in Tripoli, which is 377,937 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Lebanon, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tripoli's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1498 Cumana Venezuela379,333
- 1499 Laiwu China379,135
- 1500 Lop Buri Thailand378,160
- 1501 Bengkulu Indonesia378,066
- 1502 Tripoli377,937
- 1503 Kralpora India377,602
- 1504 Matadi Democratic Republic of the Congo377,297
- 1505 Jizzakh Uzbekistan376,607
- 1506 Gamboru Nigeria376,374
In Lebanon, 2025
- 276 Beirut1,794,019
- 1502 Tripoli377,937
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 Tripoli are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Tripoli 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