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Huế, 
Vietnam
408,692 people lived in Huế in 2025. It is the 1384th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th 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 Huế grew
For every 10 people in Huế in 1975, there were 14.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 400,005 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Huế through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Huế in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Huế is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Vietnam in 2025, 137 in all, led by Ho Chi Minh City, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Huế covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 45%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Vietnam
Its share of Vietnam
Of every 1,000 people in Vietnam in 2025, 4 lived in Huế, which is 408,692 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 Huế; 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
- 1380 Dongtai China409,015
- 1381 Uíge Angola408,927
- 1382 Makurdi Nigeria408,753
- 1383 Kendari Indonesia408,731
- 1384 Huế408,692
- 1385 Waidhan India408,489
- 1386 Zhaodong China407,507
- 1387 Hat Yai Thailand407,059
- 1388 Jalna India406,973
In Vietnam, 2025
- 969 Mỹ Tho565,906
- 1099 Nha Trang503,051
- 1111 Vũng Tàu498,010
- 1273 Tây Ninh437,816
- 1384 Huế408,692
- 1602 Vinh355,643
- 1620 Nam Định353,044
- 1776 Hải Dương323,442
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi320,907
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 Huế 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 Huế 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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