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Naha, 
Japan
1,060,017 people lived in Naha in 2025. It is the 484th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Japan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Naha 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 Naha grew
Count 10 people in Naha in 1975 and the same count gives 14.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Naha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Naha 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). Naha 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, Naha covered 312 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 66 km² of it. That is 63 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 42%.
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, 9 lived in Naha, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Japan; the coloured squares live in Naha. 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
- 480 Leeds United Kingdom1,065,607
- 481 Astana Kazakhstan1,065,387
- 482 João Pessoa Brazil1,064,481
- 483 Honghuagang China1,062,992
- 484 Naha1,060,017
- 485 Bangui Central African Republic1,056,949
- 486 Al Hillah Iraq1,055,267
- 487 Tshikapa Democratic Republic of the Congo1,054,686
- 488 Kutubdia Bangladesh1,053,339
In Japan, 2025
- 252 Sapporo1,964,519
- 406 Sendai1,256,440
- 428 Kitakyushu1,206,731
- 435 Hiroshima1,185,788
- 484 Naha1,060,017
- 515 Nara993,952
- 643 Okayama817,266
- 843 Kumamoto641,185
- 978 Otsu559,798
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 Naha 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 Naha 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