What is the population of Thủ Đức?
Thủ Đức has a city population of 524,670. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
City profile · Vietnam · Asia
Thủ Đức
City population
524,670
#12
in Vietnam
#3
in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)
#1,079
worldwide
10.849, 106.772 · 1,136 km from Hanoi
About Thủ Đức
The 12th-largest city in Vietnam by population, this city of 524,670 people ranks third within its administrative division of Ho Chi Minh City. It sits 1,136 km from the national capital Hanoi. Nearby cities include Thuận An at 10 km (588,616 people) and Biên Hòa at 12 km (1,272,235 people).
This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#3of 28
Elevation
29 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Coordinates
10.849, 106.772
Record updated
2025-07-29
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 301 in VietnamClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.
Compared with the World's Largest Cities
City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.
| Name | City population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24.9M |
| Beijing | 19M |
| Shenzhen | 17.5M |
| Guangzhou | 16.1M |
| Kinshasa | 16M |
| Istanbul | 15.7M |
| Lagos | 15.4M |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14M |
| Chengdu | 13.6M |
| Lahore | 13M |
| Mumbai | 12.7M |
| São Paulo | 12.4M |
| Mexico City | 12.3M |
| Karachi | 11.6M |
| Tianjin | 11.1M |
| Thủ Đức | 525K |
Thủ Đức Population FAQ
Where is Thủ Đức?
Thủ Đức is in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, 1,136 km from the capital, Hanoi. Its coordinates are 10.849, 106.772.
How big is Thủ Đức compared with other cities in Vietnam?
It is the 12th largest of the 301 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Vietnam, holding 0.5% of the national population.