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Pohang-si, 
South Korea
382,368 people lived in Pohang-si in 2025. It is the 1487th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in South Korea.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Pohang-si governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pohang-si grew
Pohang-si had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 314,776 people in 2050.
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
Pohang-si through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pohang-si in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
South Korea · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 49 cities in South Korea in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Seoul. The ringed dot in colour is Pohang-si; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Pohang-si covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 71 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are about as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in South Korea
Its share of South Korea
Of every 1,000 people in South Korea in 2025, 7 lived in Pohang-si, which is 382,368 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in South Korea, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Pohang-si's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1483 Eluru India383,068
- 1484 Villavicencio Colombia383,028
- 1485 Rewa India383,019
- 1486 Badaun India382,686
- 1487 Pohang-si382,368
- 1488 Guangyuan China381,738
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain381,670
- 1490 Changji/Sanji China381,391
- 1491 Kas Sudan381,286
In South Korea, 2025
- 780 Cheongju-si690,333
- 814 Changwon665,772
- 848 Jeonju637,082
- 1304 Cheonan-si428,378
- 1487 Pohang-si382,368
- 1955 Gumi-si296,323
- 2463 Jinju-si237,707
- 3680 Iksan-si164,566
- 4103 Suncheon-si147,975
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 Pohang-si 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 Pohang-si 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