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Hamhung, 
North Korea
412,277 people lived in Hamhung in 2025. It is the 1367th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in North Korea.
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 Hamhung grew
Where Hamhung had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,619 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Hamhung through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hamhung in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
North Korea · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 104 cities in North Korea in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Pyongyang. The ringed dot in colour is Hamhung; 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, Hamhung covered 37 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 62%, and its people have grown by 24%.
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 North Korea
Its share of North Korea
Of every 100 people in North Korea in 2025, 2 lived in Hamhung, which is 412,277 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in North Korea, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Hamhung's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1363 Ciudad del Este Paraguay412,725
- 1364 Sanhur Egypt412,618
- 1365 Kaolack Senegal412,347
- 1366 Jixi China412,341
- 1367 Hamhung412,277
- 1368 Americana Brazil412,133
- 1369 Elazığ Türkiye411,268
- 1370 Tashikeruike China411,163
- 1371 Bharuch India411,095
In North Korea, 2025
- 172 Pyongyang2,901,588
- 779 Chŏngjin690,409
- 1367 Hamhung412,277
- 1398 Sariwon404,672
- 1525 Wonsan373,596
- 1576 Jakdo-dong363,071
- 1679 Pyŏngsŏng340,370
- 1854 Kanggye310,432
- 3547 Nampo170,683
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 Hamhung 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 Hamhung 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