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Asunción, 
Paraguay
1,314,663 people lived in Asunción in 2025. It is the 391st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Paraguay, where it is the capital.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Asunción's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Asunción grew
Count 10 people in Asunción in 1975 and the same count gives 19.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Asunción through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Asunción in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Paraguay · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 9 cities in Paraguay in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there. The ringed dot in colour is Asunción; 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, Asunción covered 393 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 119 km² of it. That is 91 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Paraguay
Its share of Paraguay
Of every 100 people in Paraguay in 2025, 19 lived in Asunción, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Paraguay, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Asunción's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 387 Kishoreganj Bangladesh1,324,096
- 388 Anshan China1,322,386
- 389 Managua Nicaragua1,315,865
- 390 Yichang China1,314,779
- 391 Asunción1,314,663
- 392 Guwahati India1,314,019
- 393 Tabriz Iran1,309,004
- 394 Kharkiv Ukraine1,308,892
- 395 Amritsar India1,303,330
In Paraguay, 2025
- 391 Asunción1,314,663
- 1363 Ciudad del Este412,725
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 Asunción 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 Asunción 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