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Shizuoka, 
Japan
328,613 people lived in Shizuoka in 2025. It is the 1748th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th largest in Japan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Shizuoka 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 Shizuoka grew
Count 10 people in Shizuoka in 1975 and the same count gives 8.3 in 2025 — the city lost people.
On the UN's projection it will have 275,256 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Shizuoka fall from 638,849 in 2005 to 275,256 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 2005 figure as high: 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: 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
Shizuoka through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shizuoka in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Japan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Japan and its 137 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Tokyo). Shizuoka 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, Shizuoka covered 130 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 38 km² of it. That is 117 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 17%, and its people have fallen by 17%.
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 Japan
Its share of Japan
Of every 1,000 people in Japan in 2025, 3 lived in Shizuoka, which is 328,613 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Japan; the coloured squares live in Shizuoka. 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
- 1744 Faridpur Bangladesh329,383
- 1745 Kumba Cameroon329,340
- 1746 Shiblanga Egypt328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig Egypt328,639
- 1748 Shizuoka328,613
- 1749 Shangyu District China328,545
- 1750 Ya'an China328,287
- 1751 Tezpur India328,217
- 1752 Puri India328,196
In Japan, 2025
- 1605 Fukuyama355,352
- 1622 Utsunomiya352,816
- 1678 Takamatsu340,478
- 1729 Yokkaichi332,173
- 1748 Shizuoka328,613
- 1864 Nagasaki308,986
- 1930 Asahikawa298,481
- 2061 Hamamatsu282,084
- 2073 Kofu280,212
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Shizuoka 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 Shizuoka 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