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Toulon, 
France
298,777 people lived in Toulon in 2025. It is the 1925th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in France.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Toulon governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Toulon grew
Where Toulon had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 317,885 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Toulon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Toulon in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
France · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 71 cities in France in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Paris. The ringed dot in colour is Toulon; 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, Toulon covered 100 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 87 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 44%, and its people have grown by 24%.
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 France
Its share of France
Of every 1,000 people in France in 2025, 4 lived in Toulon, which is 298,777 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in France; the coloured squares live in Toulon. 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
- 1921 Sorong Indonesia299,181
- 1922 Yongcheng China299,180
- 1923 Bugama Nigeria299,022
- 1924 Semey Kazakhstan298,847
- 1925 Toulon298,777
- 1926 Gold Coast Australia298,750
- 1927 Novokuznetsk Russia298,733
- 1928 Fungurume Democratic Republic of the Congo298,713
- 1930 Asahikawa Japan298,481
In France, 2025
- 1424 Strasbourg398,175
- 1587 Grenoble359,128
- 1772 Montpellier324,059
- 1844 Rouen311,071
- 1925 Toulon298,777
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 Toulon 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 Toulon 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 →
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