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Đà Nẵng, 
Vietnam
1,142,621 people lived in Đà Nẵng in 2025. It is the 454th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Vietnam.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Đà Nẵng grew
Count 10 people in Đà Nẵng in 1975 and the same count gives 52.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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 Nẵng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Đà Nẵng 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). Đà Nẵng 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, Đà Nẵng covered 226 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 43 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 5.3 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 100 people in Vietnam in 2025, 1 lived in Đà Nẵng, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Vietnam; the coloured squares live in Đà Nẵng. 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
- 450 Bhubaneshwar India1,146,434
- 451 Baltimore United States1,145,219
- 452 Sargodha Pakistan1,142,723
- 453 Dublin Ireland1,142,650
- 454 Đà Nẵng1,142,621
- 455 Huizhou China1,137,670
- 456 Kazan Russia1,132,941
- 457 Sekondi-Takoradi Ghana1,127,436
- 458 Srinagar India1,126,638
In Vietnam, 2025
- 20 Ho Chi Minh City14,052,713
- 81 Hanoi5,068,414
- 384 Cần Thơ1,327,741
- 454 Đà Nẵng1,142,621
- 508 Hải Phòng1,015,494
- 851 Long Xuyên635,490
- 969 Mỹ Tho565,906
- 1099 Nha Trang503,051
- 1111 Vũng Tàu498,010
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 Đà Nẵng 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 Đà Nẵng 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 →
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