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Asahikawa, 
Japan
298,481 people lived in Asahikawa in 2025. It is the 1930th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 29th largest in Japan.
Like every city on this site, Asahikawa 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 Asahikawa grew
For every 10 people in Asahikawa in 1975, there were 13.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 260,711 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Asahikawa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Asahikawa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Japan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Asahikawa is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Japan in 2025, 137 in all, led by Tokyo, 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, Asahikawa covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 95 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 46%, and its people have grown by 39%.
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 Japan
Its share of Japan
Of every 1,000 people in Japan in 2025, 2 lived in Asahikawa, which is 298,481 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Japan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Asahikawa's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1925 Toulon France298,777
- 1926 Gold Coast Australia298,750
- 1927 Novokuznetsk Russia298,733
- 1928 Fungurume Democratic Republic of the Congo298,713
- 1930 Asahikawa298,481
- 1931 Baochi China298,433
- 1932 Bojonegoro Indonesia298,285
- 1934 Arlington Heights United States298,081
- 1935 Guigang China298,077
In Japan, 2025
- 1678 Takamatsu340,478
- 1729 Yokkaichi332,173
- 1748 Shizuoka328,613
- 1864 Nagasaki308,986
- 1930 Asahikawa298,481
- 2061 Hamamatsu282,084
- 2073 Kofu280,212
- 2152 Nagano270,476
- 2229 Hakodate261,557
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 Asahikawa 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 Asahikawa 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