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Nampo, 
North Korea
170,683 people lived in Nampo in 2025. It is the 3547th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in North Korea.
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 Nampo'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 Nampo grew
Nampo had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 166,419 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985. The UN's figures for Nampo fall from 506,220 in 1995 to 166,419 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1995 figure as low: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Nampo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nampo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
North Korea · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: North Korea and its 104 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Pyongyang). Nampo 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, Nampo covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.2 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 94%, and its people are about as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in North Korea
Its share of North Korea
Of every 1,000 people in North Korea in 2025, 6 lived in Nampo, which is 170,683 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in North Korea, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Nampo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3528 Anlong Veng Cambodia172,053
- 3531 Zhanaozen Kazakhstan171,827
- 3538 Beanibazar Bangladesh171,417
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy Madagascar170,981
- 3547 Nampo170,683
- 3560 Shahrasti Bangladesh169,908
- 3568 Kefole Ethiopia169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo Ethiopia169,004
- 3588 Faya-Largeau Chad168,302
In North Korea, 2025
- 1525 Wonsan373,596
- 1576 Jakdo-dong363,071
- 1679 Pyŏngsŏng340,370
- 1854 Kanggye310,432
- 3547 Nampo170,683
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Nampo 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 Nampo 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