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Phan Thiết, 
Vietnam
246,665 people lived in Phan Thiết in 2025. It is the 2368th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in Vietnam.
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 Phan Thiết's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Phan Thiết grew
Where Phan Thiết had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 391,191 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Phan Thiết through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Phan Thiết in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Phan Thiết 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 Thiết covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.7 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Thiết, which is 246,665 people.
How to read this: shrink Vietnam to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Phan Thiết; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2360 Kipushi Democratic Republic of the Congo247,546
- 2362 Sreemangal Bangladesh247,298
- 2364 Koforidua Ghana246,770
- 2366 Irgalem Ethiopia246,701
- 2368 Phan Thiết246,665
- 2371 Obuasi Ghana245,920
- 2373 Saidpur Bangladesh245,655
- 2374 Yamoussoukro Côte d’Ivoire245,612
- 2376 Shorsh Iraq245,565
In Vietnam, 2025
- 1814 Buôn Ma Thuột316,052
- 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
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 Phan Thiết 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 Phan Thiết 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