Western Sahara
El Marsa population
28,848people · latest figure
El Marsa has a population of 28,848, making it the 4th largest place we list in Western Sahara.
El Marsa holds 4.7% of Western Sahara's 610,813 people. Laayoune, the largest place we list there, is 6.8 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 10,931, a rise of 164%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Laayoune | 196,331 | |
| Dakhla | 106,277 | |
| Boujdour | 42,651 | |
| Meharrize | 12,000 | |
| Tichla | 6,036 | |
| El Aargub | 5,020 |
All places in Western Sahara →
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.