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Zahrat Laban, 
Saudi Arabia
257,467 people lived in Zahrat Laban in 2025. It is the 2266th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Saudi Arabia.
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 Zahrat Laban grew
Count 10 people in Zahrat Laban in 2015 and the same count gives 47.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 359,855 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Zahrat Laban through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zahrat Laban in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Saudi Arabia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Saudi Arabia and its 44 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Riyadh). Zahrat Laban is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Zahrat Laban covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 6 times its size, and its people are 4.8 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 Saudi Arabia
Its share of Saudi Arabia
Of every 1,000 people in Saudi Arabia in 2025, 7 lived in Zahrat Laban, which is 257,467 people.
How to read this: shrink Saudi Arabia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Zahrat Laban; 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
- 2260 Masaurhi India258,274
- 2262 Netanya Israel257,714
- 2263 Kherson Ukraine257,682
- 2265 Dinghai District China257,524
- 2266 Zahrat Laban257,467
- 2267 Cabo San Lucas Mexico257,436
- 2268 Murrieta United States257,413
- 2270 Otukpo Nigeria257,334
- 2273 Jowhar Somalia257,210
In Saudi Arabia, 2025
- 990 Tabuk553,389
- 1113 Khamis Mushayt497,246
- 1151 At Ta'if481,818
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin302,534
- 2266 Zahrat Laban257,467
- 2393 Ash Sharai244,064
- 2479 Ha'il236,744
- 2859 `Ar`ar208,320
- 3025 Unaizah197,665
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 Zahrat Laban are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Zahrat Laban 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