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Buôn Ma Thuột, 
Vietnam
316,052 people lived in Buôn Ma Thuột in 2025. It is the 1814th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Vietnam.
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 Buôn Ma Thuột's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Buôn Ma Thuột grew
Where Buôn Ma Thuột had 10 people in 1975, it had 42.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 351,345 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Buôn Ma Thuột through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Buôn Ma Thuột in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Vietnam and its 137 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Ho Chi Minh City). Buôn Ma Thuột 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, Buôn Ma Thuột covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 15.6 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 Vietnam
Its share of Vietnam
Of every 1,000 people in Vietnam in 2025, 3 lived in Buôn Ma Thuột, which is 316,052 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Vietnam; the coloured squares live in Buôn Ma Thuột. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1810 Magnitogorsk Russia317,107
- 1811 Bhusawal India317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh India316,861
- 1813 Surendranagar India316,206
- 1814 Buôn Ma Thuột316,052
- 1815 Guiping China315,905
- 1816 Iquique Chile315,904
- 1817 Udupi India315,743
- 1818 Sapele Nigeria315,614
In Vietnam, 2025
- 1602 Vinh355,643
- 1620 Nam Định353,044
- 1776 Hải Dương323,442
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi320,907
- 1814 Buôn Ma Thuột316,052
- 1944 Quy Nhơn297,184
- 2027 Vinh Long287,685
- 2244 Long Thành260,047
- 2368 Phan Thiết246,665
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 Buôn Ma Thuột 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 Buôn Ma Thuột 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