Hat Yai has a population of 191,696, making it the 6th largest place we list in Thailand. It is in Songkhla.
Hat Yai holds 0.27% of Thailand's 71,559,614 people. Bangkok, the largest place we list there, is 27 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 191,696 for Hat Yai in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Chon Buri | Chon Buri | 219,164 |
| Phra Pradaeng | Samut Prakan | 196,129 |
| Bang Khae | Bangkok | 193,002 |
| Pak Kret | Nonthaburi | 190,272 |
| Sai Mai | Bangkok | 188,123 |
| Si Racha | Chon Buri | 178,916 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.