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Pegu, 
Myanmar
394,446 people lived in Pegu in 2025. It is the 1439th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Myanmar.
Like every city on this site, Pegu is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pegu grew
For every 10 people in Pegu in 1975, there were 15.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 437,802 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
Pegu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pegu 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). Pegu 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, Pegu covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 56%.
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 Myanmar
Its share of Myanmar
Of every 1,000 people in Myanmar in 2025, 7 lived in Pegu, which is 394,446 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Myanmar; the coloured squares live in Pegu. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1435 Khandwa India394,910
- 1436 Colorado Springs United States394,888
- 1437 Kanchipuram India394,850
- 1438 Sonipat India394,583
- 1439 Pegu394,446
- 1440 Danzhou City China394,343
- 1441 Mahesana India394,304
- 1442 Bamenda Cameroon394,155
- 1443 As Samawah Iraq393,865
In Myanmar, 2025
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Pegu 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 Pegu 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