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Taunggyi, 
Myanmar
277,312 people lived in Taunggyi in 2025. It is the 2093rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Myanmar.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Taunggyi grew
Taunggyi had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 266,658 people in 2050.
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
Taunggyi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Taunggyi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Myanmar · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Taunggyi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Myanmar in 2025, 125 in all, led by Yangon, 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, Taunggyi covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are about 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 Myanmar
Its share of Myanmar
Of every 1,000 people in Myanmar in 2025, 5 lived in Taunggyi, which is 277,312 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Myanmar, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Taunggyi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2083 Kayes Mali278,727
- 2087 Saraf `Umrah Sudan278,467
- 2091 Murmansk Russia277,693
- 2092 Dhaulpur India277,498
- 2093 Taunggyi277,312
- 2095 Iwo Nigeria277,101
- 2096 Sarh Chad276,978
- 2097 Binangonan Philippines276,785
- 2099 Legazpi Philippines276,662
In Myanmar, 2025
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 Taunggyi 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 Taunggyi 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