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Jinju-si, 
South Korea
237,707 people lived in Jinju-si in 2025. It is the 2463rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in South Korea.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Jinju-si 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 Jinju-si grew
For every 10 people in Jinju-si in 1975, there were 6.8 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 192,573 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Jinju-si through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jinju-si in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Korea · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jinju-si is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of South Korea in 2025, 49 in all, led by Seoul, 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, Jinju-si covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have fallen by 32%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in South Korea
Its share of South Korea
Of every 1,000 people in South Korea in 2025, 5 lived in Jinju-si, which is 237,707 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in South Korea, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Jinju-si's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2458 Dosso Niger238,280
- 2459 Derudeib Sudan238,164
- 2460 Ota Japan237,865
- 2461 Diourbel Senegal237,795
- 2463 Jinju-si237,707
- 2464 Tal Afar Iraq237,454
- 2465 Dhaka India237,385
- 2469 Manikganj Bangladesh237,163
- 2470 Lakhnaur India237,133
In South Korea, 2025
- 848 Jeonju637,082
- 1304 Cheonan-si428,378
- 1487 Pohang-si382,368
- 1955 Gumi-si296,323
- 2463 Jinju-si237,707
- 3680 Iksan-si164,566
- 4103 Suncheon-si147,975
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 Jinju-si 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 Jinju-si 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