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Pathein, 
Myanmar
253,953 people lived in Pathein in 2025. It is the 2294th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Myanmar.
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 Pathein's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pathein grew
Where Pathein had 10 people in 1975, it had 17.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 331,487 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Pathein through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pathein in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Myanmar · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Myanmar and its 125 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Yangon). Pathein 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, Pathein covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 77%.
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 Myanmar
Its share of Myanmar
Of every 1,000 people in Myanmar in 2025, 5 lived in Pathein, which is 253,953 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Myanmar, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Pathein's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2288 Skikda Algeria255,379
- 2289 Arkhangelsk Russia254,797
- 2290 Shakar Garh Pakistan254,655
- 2293 Gaborone Botswana254,517
- 2294 Pathein253,953
- 2295 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina253,857
- 2299 Borigaon India253,566
- 2300 Rabak Sudan253,166
- 2302 Hadejia Nigeria252,778
In Myanmar, 2025
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 Pathein 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 Pathein 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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