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Jakdo-dong, 
North Korea
363,071 people lived in Jakdo-dong in 2025. It is the 1576th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in North Korea.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Jakdo-dong governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jakdo-dong grew
Count 10 people in Jakdo-dong in 1975 and the same count gives 12.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 352,333 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
Jakdo-dong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jakdo-dong 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 Jakdo-dong; 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, Jakdo-dong covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 92%, and its people have grown by 28%.
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, 1 lived in Jakdo-dong, which is 363,071 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 Jakdo-dong's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1572 Vinnytsia Ukraine363,466
- 1573 Belgorod Russia363,411
- 1574 Liyang China363,285
- 1575 Xingping China363,206
- 1576 Jakdo-dong363,071
- 1577 Linhai China362,290
- 1578 Qidong China362,192
- 1579 London Canada362,006
- 1580 San Cristobal Venezuela361,969
In North Korea, 2025
- 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: 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 Jakdo-dong 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 Jakdo-dong 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