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Nottingham, 
United Kingdom
649,610 people lived in Nottingham in 2025. It is the 835th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in the United Kingdom.
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 Nottingham's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nottingham grew
Where Nottingham had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 670,317 people in 2050.
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
Nottingham through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nottingham in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United Kingdom · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 150 cities in the United Kingdom in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being London. The ringed dot in colour is Nottingham; 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, Nottingham covered 175 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 43 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 38%, and its people have grown by 27%.
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 the United Kingdom
Its share of the United Kingdom
Of every 1,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2025, 9 lived in Nottingham, which is 649,610 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the United Kingdom, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Nottingham's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 831 Zucheng China654,599
- 832 Antwerp Belgium652,506
- 833 Changde China651,562
- 834 Mazar i sharif Afghanistan651,287
- 835 Nottingham649,610
- 836 Amarah Iraq645,612
- 837 Nuremberg Germany644,169
- 838 Dhule India643,777
- 839 Toulouse France642,224
In the United Kingdom, 2025
- 418 Liverpool1,227,470
- 480 Leeds1,065,607
- 533 Glasgow970,320
- 700 Newcastle upon Tyne760,969
- 835 Nottingham649,610
- 875 Bristol615,703
- 1001 Sheffield549,695
- 1046 Leicester530,264
- 1058 Edinburgh521,784
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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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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