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Đà Lạt, 
Vietnam
239,212 people lived in Đà Lạt in 2025. It is the 2450th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in Vietnam.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Đà Lạt governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Đà Lạt grew
Where Đà Lạt had 10 people in 1980, it had 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 319,794 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Đà Lạt through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Đà Lạt in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 137 cities in Vietnam in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Ho Chi Minh City. The ringed dot in colour is Đà Lạt; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Đà Lạt covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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, 2 lived in Đà Lạt, which is 239,212 people.
How to read this: shrink Vietnam to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Đà Lạt; 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
- 2439 Fenghua District China240,478
- 2445 Somerset West South Africa239,943
- 2446 Corpus Christi United States239,855
- 2448 Dohrighat India239,251
- 2450 Đà Lạt239,212
- 2458 Dosso Niger238,280
- 2459 Derudeib Sudan238,164
- 2460 Ota Japan237,865
- 2461 Diourbel Senegal237,795
In Vietnam, 2025
- 2027 Vinh Long287,685
- 2244 Long Thành260,047
- 2368 Phan Thiết246,665
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm240,480
- 2450 Đà Lạt239,212
- 3066 Củ Chi195,626
- 3881 Bến Tre156,097
- 5479 Việt Trì112,591
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Đà Lạt are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Đà Lạt 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