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Tunis, 
Tunisia
2,473,428 people lived in Tunis in 2025. It is the 201st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Tunisia, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Tunis governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tunis grew
For every 10 people in Tunis in 1975, there were 35.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Tunis through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tunis in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Tunisia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tunis is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Tunisia in 2025, 24 in all, 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, Tunis covered 438 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 111 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Tunisia
Its share of Tunisia
Of every 100 people in Tunisia in 2025, 20 lived in Tunis, which is 2.5 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Tunisia; the coloured squares live in Tunis. 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
- 197 Quito Ecuador2,534,914
- 198 Cotonou Benin2,506,489
- 199 Bhopal India2,487,205
- 200 Curitiba Brazil2,475,352
- 201 Tunis2,473,428
- 202 Dighwara India2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh India2,437,733
- 204 Lomé Togo2,415,011
- 205 Ponnani India2,409,567
In Tunisia, 2025
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 Tunis 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 Tunis 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 →
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