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Hull, 
United Kingdom
322,100 people lived in Hull in 2025. It is the 1783rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in the United Kingdom.
Like every city on this site, Hull is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hull grew
Hull had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 334,408 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
Hull through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hull in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United Kingdom · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 150 cities in the United Kingdom in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being London. The ringed dot in colour is Hull; 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, Hull covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 81 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 43%, and its people are about 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 the United Kingdom
Its share of the United Kingdom
Of every 1,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2025, 5 lived in Hull, which is 322,100 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the United Kingdom, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Hull's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1779 Buffalo United States322,892
- 1780 Parma United States322,420
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria Mexico322,403
- 1782 Kirov Russia322,377
- 1783 Hull322,100
- 1784 Mulongo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,881
- 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
- 1786 Shariatpur Bangladesh321,804
- 1787 Timofeevka Russia321,680
In the United Kingdom, 2025
- 1473 Bournemouth386,557
- 1637 Middlesbrough349,436
- 1647 Southampton347,446
- 1728 Stoke-on-Trent332,542
- 1783 Hull322,100
- 1877 Wakefield306,684
- 2075 Southend-on-Sea280,158
- 2112 Reading274,632
- 2256 Gillingham258,422
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 Hull 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 Hull 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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