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Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm, 
Vietnam
240,480 people lived in Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm in 2025. It is the 2438th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in Vietnam.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm grew
Count 10 people in Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm in 1980 and the same count gives 43.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 397,518 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 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Vietnam in 2025, 137 in all, led by Ho Chi Minh City, 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, Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 8.2 times its size, and its people are 4.4 times as many.
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 Vietnam
Its share of Vietnam
Of every 1,000 people in Vietnam in 2025, 2 lived in Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm, which is 240,480 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Vietnam, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2431 Ore Nigeria241,251
- 2432 Mianwali Pakistan241,207
- 2436 Xinchang China240,747
- 2437 Payyanur India240,715
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm240,480
- 2439 Fenghua District China240,478
- 2445 Somerset West South Africa239,943
- 2446 Corpus Christi United States239,855
- 2448 Dohrighat India239,251
In Vietnam, 2025
- 1944 Quy Nhơn297,184
- 2027 Vinh Long287,685
- 2244 Long Thành260,047
- 2368 Phan Thiết246,665
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm240,480
- 2450 Đà Lạt239,212
- 3066 Củ Chi195,626
- 3881 Bến Tre156,097
- 5479 Việt Trì112,591
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm 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