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Mỹ Tho, 
Vietnam
565,906 people lived in Mỹ Tho in 2025. It is the 969th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Vietnam.
Like every city on this site, Mỹ Tho 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 Mỹ Tho grew
Where Mỹ Tho had 10 people in 1975, it had 39.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2040 and 2045.
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
Mỹ Tho through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mỹ Tho in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 137 cities in Vietnam in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Ho Chi Minh City. The ringed dot in colour is Mỹ Tho; 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, Mỹ Tho covered 165 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 km² of it. That is 55 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 19.4 times its size, and its people are 3.9 times as many.
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 Vietnam
Its share of Vietnam
Of every 1,000 people in Vietnam in 2025, 6 lived in Mỹ Tho, which is 565,906 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Vietnam, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mỹ Tho's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 965 Norfolk United States567,473
- 966 Zaporizhzhia Ukraine566,844
- 967 Kenitra Morocco566,802
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
In Vietnam, 2025
- 384 Cần Thơ1,327,741
- 454 Đà Nẵng1,142,621
- 508 Hải Phòng1,015,494
- 851 Long Xuyên635,490
- 969 Mỹ Tho565,906
- 1099 Nha Trang503,051
- 1111 Vũng Tàu498,010
- 1273 Tây Ninh437,816
- 1384 Huế408,692
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 Mỹ Tho 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 Mỹ Tho 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