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Barinas, 
Venezuela
295,298 people lived in Barinas in 2025. It is the 1965th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Venezuela.
Like every city on this site, Barinas is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Barinas grew
Count 10 people in Barinas in 1980 and the same count gives 47.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 318,685 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Barinas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Barinas in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Barinas is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Venezuela in 2025, 69 in all, led by Caracas, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Barinas covered 67 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 4.7 times as many.
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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 1 lived in Barinas, which is 295,298 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Venezuela; the coloured squares live in Barinas. 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
- 1960 Colima Mexico295,757
- 1962 Ségou Mali295,589
- 1963 Pinghu China295,531
- 1964 Sincelejo Colombia295,401
- 1965 Barinas295,298
- 1966 Hechuan China295,189
- 1967 Wardha India295,117
- 1968 Yanjiao China294,943
- 1969 Franceville Gabon294,863
In Venezuela, 2025
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira]320,109
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar307,794
- 1965 Barinas295,298
- 2048 Cabimas283,656
- 2192 Porlamar265,905
- 2283 Punto Fijo255,662
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 Barinas are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Barinas 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