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Baguio, 
Philippines
565,522 people lived in Baguio in 2025. It is the 971st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in the Philippines.
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 Baguio'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 Baguio grew
Where Baguio had 10 people in 1975, it had 54 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 633,606 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Baguio through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Baguio in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 114 cities in the Philippines in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Manila. The ringed dot in colour is Baguio; 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, Baguio covered 84 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 5.4 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in the Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 5 lived in Baguio, which is 565,522 people.
How to read this: shrink the Philippines to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Baguio; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 967 Kenitra Morocco566,802
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
- 971 Baguio565,522
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze China562,800
- 975 Sultanpur India562,032
In the Philippines, 2025
- 601 Cagayan de Oro870,291
- 750 Iloilo City717,038
- 828 Bacolod655,836
- 880 Lipa614,898
- 971 Baguio565,522
- 1081 Zamboanga City513,813
- 1110 General Santos498,098
- 1357 Batangas City415,103
- 1676 Iligan341,172
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Baguio 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 Baguio 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