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Naga, 
Philippines
338,596 people lived in Naga in 2025. It is the 1689th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in the Philippines.
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 Naga'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 Naga grew
For every 10 people in Naga in 1985, there were 55.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 414,152 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Naga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Naga in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 114 cities in the Philippines in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Manila. The ringed dot in colour is Naga; 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, Naga covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.1 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 5.6 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 the Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 3 lived in Naga, which is 338,596 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Philippines, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Naga's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1685 Montería Colombia339,380
- 1686 Çerkezköy Türkiye338,995
- 1687 Yan'an China338,883
- 1688 Naogaon Bangladesh338,623
- 1689 Naga338,596
- 1690 Ikere-Ekiti Nigeria338,367
- 1691 Rubavu Rwanda337,963
- 1692 Franca Brazil337,878
- 1693 Vilnius Lithuania337,871
In the Philippines, 2025
- 1081 Zamboanga City513,813
- 1110 General Santos498,098
- 1357 Batangas City415,103
- 1676 Iligan341,172
- 1689 Naga338,596
- 1777 Lucena323,308
- 1890 Tagum303,614
- 2042 Tacloban285,095
- 2097 Binangonan276,785
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 Naga are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Naga 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