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Jeonju, 
South Korea
637,082 people lived in Jeonju in 2025. It is the 848th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in South Korea.
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 Jeonju's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jeonju grew
Count 10 people in Jeonju in 1975 and the same count gives 24.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 570,907 people in 2050.
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
Jeonju through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jeonju in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Korea · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: South Korea and its 49 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Seoul). Jeonju is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Jeonju covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 South Korea
Its share of South Korea
Of every 100 people in South Korea in 2025, 1 lived in Jeonju, which is 637,082 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in South Korea; the coloured squares live in Jeonju. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 844 Magelang Indonesia640,707
- 845 Cancún Mexico637,532
- 846 Jiangyin China637,502
- 847 Morelia Mexico637,430
- 848 Jeonju637,082
- 849 Mianyang China636,781
- 850 Kuningan Indonesia636,447
- 851 Long Xuyên Vietnam635,490
- 852 Liaoyang China635,212
In South Korea, 2025
- 351 Gwangju1,441,495
- 588 Ulsan881,858
- 780 Cheongju-si690,333
- 814 Changwon665,772
- 848 Jeonju637,082
- 1304 Cheonan-si428,378
- 1487 Pohang-si382,368
- 1955 Gumi-si296,323
- 2463 Jinju-si237,707
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 Jeonju 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 Jeonju 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