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Matsuyama, 
Japan
437,355 people lived in Matsuyama in 2025. It is the 1275th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Japan.
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 Matsuyama'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 Matsuyama grew
For every 10 people in Matsuyama in 1975, there were 16.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 362,649 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Matsuyama through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Matsuyama in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Japan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Japan and its 137 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Tokyo). Matsuyama 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, Matsuyama covered 139 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 83 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 78%, and its people have grown by 67%.
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 Japan
Its share of Japan
Of every 1,000 people in Japan in 2025, 4 lived in Matsuyama, which is 437,355 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Japan; the coloured squares live in Matsuyama. 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
- 1271 Quelimane Mozambique438,554
- 1272 Buenaventura Colombia438,063
- 1273 Tây Ninh Vietnam437,816
- 1274 Ardabil Iran437,757
- 1275 Matsuyama437,355
- 1276 Titi Nigeria436,744
- 1277 Geneva Switzerland436,587
- 1278 Kaliningrad Russia436,555
- 1279 Cuddalore India436,495
In Japan, 2025
- 1041 Kanazawa533,682
- 1124 Himeji494,064
- 1145 Kagoshima484,164
- 1263 Toyohashi441,665
- 1275 Matsuyama437,355
- 1295 Takasaki [Maebashi]431,687
- 1326 Niigata422,238
- 1521 Numazu374,507
- 1533 Oita372,190
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 Matsuyama 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 Matsuyama 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