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Bellevue, 
United States
267,696 people lived in Bellevue in 2025. It is the 2176th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 72nd largest in the United States.
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 Bellevue's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bellevue grew
For every 10 people in Bellevue in 2005, there were 47.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 397,800 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Bellevue through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bellevue in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bellevue is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United States in 2025, 348 in all, led by New York City, 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, Bellevue covered 158 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 109 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Bellevue, which is 267,696 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Bellevue. 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
- 2169 Constanța Romania268,757
- 2170 Chhatarpur India268,598
- 2171 Muzaffarabad Pakistan268,448
- 2174 Ternate Indonesia267,842
- 2176 Bellevue267,696
- 2177 Kabwe Zambia267,618
- 2178 Lafia Nigeria267,580
- 2180 Agbor Nigeria267,341
- 2185 Bule Hora Ethiopia267,051
In the United States, 2025
- 2011 Tacoma289,128
- 2049 Poway283,508
- 2076 Copperfield279,805
- 2116 Gaithersburg274,439
- 2176 Bellevue267,696
- 2238 The Woodlands260,732
- 2247 Hazel Dell259,716
- 2257 New Orleans258,413
- 2268 Murrieta257,413
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 Bellevue are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Bellevue 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