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Zalmat Hubaysh, 
Yemen
166,653 people lived in Zalmat Hubaysh in 2025. It is the 3631st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Yemen.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Zalmat Hubaysh's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Zalmat Hubaysh grew
Count 10 people in Zalmat Hubaysh in 2005 and the same count gives 31.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 405,219 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. 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: 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
Zalmat Hubaysh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zalmat Hubaysh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Zalmat Hubaysh is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Yemen in 2025, 111 in all, led by Sana'a, 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, Zalmat Hubaysh covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.2 km² of it.
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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 4 lived in Zalmat Hubaysh, which is 166,653 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Yemen, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Zalmat Hubaysh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3613 Ngozi Burundi167,196
- 3615 Berbera Somalia167,119
- 3622 Battagram Pakistan166,956
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa Nigeria166,817
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh166,653
- 3652 Matta Pakistan165,993
- 3659 Sandoa Democratic Republic of the Congo165,522
- 3667 Akhaura Bangladesh165,093
- 3670 Geita Tanzania165,000
In Yemen, 2025
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan196,086
- 3150 Al `Udayn190,661
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
- 3433 Hayfan176,151
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh166,653
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4339 Manazil Baradan140,682
- 4404 Khayran138,244
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 Zalmat Hubaysh 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 Zalmat Hubaysh 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