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Nice, 
France
418,294 people lived in Nice in 2025. It is the 1345th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in France.
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 Nice's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nice grew
Where Nice had 10 people in 1975, it had 11.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 451,475 people in 2050.
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
Nice through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nice in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
France · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nice is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of France in 2025, 71 in all, led by Paris, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Nice covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 54 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 59%, and its people have grown by 19%.
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 France
Its share of France
Of every 1,000 people in France in 2025, 6 lived in Nice, which is 418,294 people.
How to read this: shrink France to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Nice; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1341 Basirhat India419,703
- 1342 Mykolaiv Ukraine419,484
- 1343 Ikot Ekpene Nigeria418,650
- 1344 Petrolina Brazil418,619
- 1345 Nice418,294
- 1346 Eldoret Kenya418,175
- 1347 Chandrapur India416,903
- 1348 Taixing China416,677
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
In France, 2025
- 581 Marseille891,463
- 839 Toulouse642,224
- 856 Bordeaux631,551
- 1227 Nantes453,523
- 1345 Nice418,294
- 1424 Strasbourg398,175
- 1587 Grenoble359,128
- 1772 Montpellier324,059
- 1844 Rouen311,071
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 Nice 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 Nice 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 →
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