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Pingtung City, 
Taiwan
175,377 people lived in Pingtung City in 2025. It is the 3451st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Taiwan.
Like every city on this site, Pingtung City 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 Pingtung City grew
Count 10 people in Pingtung City in 1975 and the same count gives 5.8 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 127,782 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Pingtung City fall from 308,391 in 1980 to 127,782 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1980 figure as moderate: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Pingtung City through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pingtung City in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Taiwan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Taiwan and its 21 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Taipei). Pingtung City 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, Pingtung City covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 64 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 72%, and its people have fallen by 42%.
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 Taiwan
Its share of Taiwan
Of every 1,000 people in Taiwan in 2025, 8 lived in Pingtung City, which is 175,377 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Taiwan, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Pingtung City's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3423 Madhabpur Bangladesh176,480
- 3428 Islampur India176,380
- 3433 Hayfan Yemen176,151
- 3434 Layyah Pakistan176,125
- 3451 Pingtung City175,377
- 3459 Kitenge Democratic Republic of the Congo174,943
- 3485 Bukoba Tanzania173,889
- 3495 Ebolowa Cameroon173,565
- 3513 Gujar Khan Pakistan172,682
In Taiwan, 2025
- 773 Hsinchu695,677
- 1206 Zhanghua City461,552
- 1280 Chiayi436,393
- 1855 Yuanlin City310,380
- 3451 Pingtung City175,377
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 Pingtung City 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 Pingtung City 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