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Bauru, 
Brazil
351,405 people lived in Bauru in 2025. It is the 1630th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 52nd largest in Brazil.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Bauru governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bauru grew
Where Bauru had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 353,851 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: 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
Bauru through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bauru in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bauru is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Brazil in 2025, 356 in all, led by São Paulo, 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, Bauru covered 88 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 73 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Bauru, which is 351,405 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Bauru. 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
- 1626 Temuco Chile352,200
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
- 1628 Karimnagar India351,832
- 1629 Longueuil Canada351,819
- 1630 Bauru351,405
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu Democratic Republic of the Congo351,319
- 1632 Xinyang China351,064
- 1633 Purulia India350,713
- 1634 Dahod India350,660
In Brazil, 2025
- 1590 Piracicaba357,844
- 1601 Montes Claros355,651
- 1610 Anápolis354,576
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
- 1630 Bauru351,405
- 1652 Francisco Morato346,105
- 1692 Franca337,878
- 1725 Rio Branco332,810
- 1734 Gravataí330,969
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 Bauru 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 Bauru 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