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Tagum, 
Philippines
303,614 people lived in Tagum in 2025. It is the 1890th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in the Philippines.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tagum grew
Where Tagum had 10 people in 1990, it had 53.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 405,837 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Tagum through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tagum in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the Philippines and its 114 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Manila). Tagum 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, Tagum covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.5 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 5.3 times 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 the Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 3 lived in Tagum, which is 303,614 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Philippines; the coloured squares live in Tagum. 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
- 1886 Yarim Yemen304,301
- 1887 Barmer India304,268
- 1888 Fanling Hong Kong304,190
- 1889 Gao'an China304,111
- 1890 Tagum303,614
- 1891 Sers Al Layyan Egypt303,302
- 1892 Rajon Swerdlowski Russia302,890
- 1893 Busto Arsizio Italy302,759
- 1894 Al-Santa Egypt302,572
In the Philippines, 2025
- 1357 Batangas City415,103
- 1676 Iligan341,172
- 1689 Naga338,596
- 1777 Lucena323,308
- 1890 Tagum303,614
- 2042 Tacloban285,095
- 2097 Binangonan276,785
- 2099 Legazpi276,662
- 2101 San Pablo276,250
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 Tagum are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Tagum 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