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Barquisimeto, 
Venezuela
812,384 people lived in Barquisimeto in 2025. It is the 651st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Venezuela.
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 Barquisimeto'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 Barquisimeto grew
Count 10 people in Barquisimeto in 1975 and the same count gives 19.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 857,817 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Barquisimeto through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Barquisimeto in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Venezuela and its 69 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Caracas). Barquisimeto is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Barquisimeto covered 137 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 56%, and its people have grown by 91%.
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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 3 lived in Barquisimeto, which is 812,384 people.
How to read this: shrink Venezuela to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Barquisimeto; 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
- 647 Nasiriyah Iraq813,799
- 648 Al Mushahidah Iraq813,506
- 649 Mit Ghamr Egypt812,947
- 650 Sukkur Pakistan812,885
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 652 Quzhou China811,735
- 653 Detroit United States809,894
- 654 Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo809,601
- 655 Pontianak Indonesia808,759
In Venezuela, 2025
- 195 Caracas2,576,666
- 243 Maracaibo2,030,633
- 353 Valencia1,435,894
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
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 Barquisimeto 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 Barquisimeto 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