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Augsburg, 
Germany
344,255 people lived in Augsburg in 2025. It is the 1662nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Germany.
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 Augsburg's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Augsburg grew
Count 10 people in Augsburg in 1975 and the same count gives 17.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 349,527 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Augsburg through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Augsburg in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Germany · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Augsburg is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Germany in 2025, 100 in all, led by Berlin, 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, Augsburg covered 97 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people have grown by 75%.
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 Germany
Its share of Germany
Of every 1,000 people in Germany in 2025, 4 lived in Augsburg, which is 344,255 people.
How to read this: shrink Germany to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Augsburg; 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
- 1658 Ngaoundéré Cameroon345,148
- 1659 Jamalpur Bangladesh345,132
- 1660 Dili Timor-Leste345,038
- 1661 Guankou China344,468
- 1662 Augsburg344,255
- 1663 Kansas City United States344,125
- 1664 Etah India344,002
- 1665 Banda Aceh Indonesia343,382
- 1666 Dongying China343,003
In Germany, 2025
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 Augsburg 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 Augsburg 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