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Kagoshima, 
Japan
484,164 people lived in Kagoshima in 2025. It is the 1145th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Japan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kagoshima 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 Kagoshima grew
For every 10 people in Kagoshima in 1975, there were 13.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 417,344 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
Kagoshima through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kagoshima in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Japan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 137 cities in Japan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Tokyo. The ringed dot in colour is Kagoshima; 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, Kagoshima covered 138 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 71 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people have grown by 31%.
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 Japan
Its share of Japan
Of every 1,000 people in Japan in 2025, 4 lived in Kagoshima, which is 484,164 people.
How to read this: shrink Japan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kagoshima; 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
- 1141 Yazd Iran485,381
- 1142 Enshi China485,222
- 1143 Haifa Israel484,770
- 1144 Cooch Behar India484,313
- 1145 Kagoshima484,164
- 1146 Dire Dawa Ethiopia483,674
- 1147 Huzhou China483,361
- 1148 Yar Hussain Pakistan483,239
- 1149 Cuenca Ecuador482,272
In Japan, 2025
- 843 Kumamoto641,185
- 978 Otsu559,798
- 1041 Kanazawa533,682
- 1124 Himeji494,064
- 1145 Kagoshima484,164
- 1263 Toyohashi441,665
- 1275 Matsuyama437,355
- 1295 Takasaki [Maebashi]431,687
- 1326 Niigata422,238
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 Kagoshima 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 Kagoshima 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