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Panabo, 
Philippines
244,050 people lived in Panabo in 2025. It is the 2394th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in the Philippines.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Panabo grew
For every 10 people in Panabo in 2000, there were 31.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 333,447 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Panabo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Panabo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the Philippines and its 114 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Manila). Panabo 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, Panabo covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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, 2 lived in Panabo, which is 244,050 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 Panabo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2384 Cinco Ranch United States244,538
- 2388 Subang Indonesia244,383
- 2389 Kousseri Cameroon244,247
- 2393 Ash Sharai Saudi Arabia244,064
- 2394 Panabo244,050
- 2397 Qena Egypt243,801
- 2398 El Senbellawein Egypt243,779
- 2400 Sawai Madhopur India243,561
- 2401 Merauke Indonesia243,395
In the Philippines, 2025
- 2097 Binangonan276,785
- 2099 Legazpi276,662
- 2101 San Pablo276,250
- 2132 Cabanatuan272,890
- 2394 Panabo244,050
- 4537 Marawi134,181
- 8410 Jolo74,210
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 Panabo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Panabo 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