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Kofu, 
Japan
280,212 people lived in Kofu in 2025. It is the 2073rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Japan.
Like every city on this site, Kofu 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 Kofu grew
Count 10 people in Kofu in 1975 and the same count gives 7.1 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 217,655 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
Kofu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kofu 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 Kofu; 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, Kofu covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 118 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 19%, and its people have fallen by 29%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Japan
Its share of Japan
Of every 1,000 people in Japan in 2025, 2 lived in Kofu, which is 280,212 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 Kofu; 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
- 2066 Cape Coast Ghana281,579
- 2068 Batala India281,142
- 2071 Shankarpur India280,248
- 2072 Tundla India280,215
- 2073 Kofu280,212
- 2074 Mary Turkmenistan280,172
- 2075 Southend-on-Sea United Kingdom280,158
- 2076 Copperfield United States279,805
- 2079 Mweka Democratic Republic of the Congo279,312
In Japan, 2025
- 1748 Shizuoka328,613
- 1864 Nagasaki308,986
- 1930 Asahikawa298,481
- 2061 Hamamatsu282,084
- 2073 Kofu280,212
- 2152 Nagano270,476
- 2229 Hakodate261,557
- 2282 Wakayama255,782
- 2460 Ota237,865
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 Kofu 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 Kofu 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