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Fukuyama, 
Japan
355,352 people lived in Fukuyama in 2025. It is the 1605th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in Japan.
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 Fukuyama's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Fukuyama grew
Count 10 people in Fukuyama in 1975 and the same count gives 29.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 244,009 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Fukuyama through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Fukuyama in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Japan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 137 cities in Japan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Tokyo. The ringed dot in colour is Fukuyama; 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, Fukuyama covered 131 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 37 km² of it. That is 105 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 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 Japan
Its share of Japan
Of every 1,000 people in Japan in 2025, 3 lived in Fukuyama, which is 355,352 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 Fukuyama's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1601 Montes Claros Brazil355,651
- 1602 Vinh Vietnam355,643
- 1603 Satara India355,609
- 1604 Dhubri India355,592
- 1605 Fukuyama355,352
- 1606 McAllen United States355,331
- 1607 Nandail Bangladesh354,872
- 1608 Balyana Egypt354,769
- 1609 Massawa Eritrea354,657
In Japan, 2025
- 1295 Takasaki [Maebashi]431,687
- 1326 Niigata422,238
- 1521 Numazu374,507
- 1533 Oita372,190
- 1605 Fukuyama355,352
- 1622 Utsunomiya352,816
- 1678 Takamatsu340,478
- 1729 Yokkaichi332,173
- 1748 Shizuoka328,613
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 Fukuyama 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 Fukuyama 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