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Boa Vista, 
Brazil
360,361 people lived in Boa Vista in 2025. It is the 1585th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 47th largest in Brazil.
Like every city on this site, Boa Vista 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 Boa Vista grew
Count 10 people in Boa Vista in 1995 and the same count gives 39.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 519,924 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
Boa Vista through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Boa Vista in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Boa Vista 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, Boa Vista covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 64 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 4 times as many.
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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Boa Vista, which is 360,361 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Boa Vista. 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
- 1581 Hulan China361,540
- 1582 Vitsebsk Belarus361,484
- 1583 Dilla Ethiopia360,925
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
- 1585 Boa Vista360,361
- 1586 Fallujah Iraq359,695
- 1587 Grenoble France359,128
- 1588 Danyang City China358,677
- 1589 Pilibhit India358,059
In Brazil, 2025
- 1425 Volta Redonda398,107
- 1481 Caxias do Sul383,774
- 1547 Campina Grande369,184
- 1568 Colina de Laranjeiras365,960
- 1585 Boa Vista360,361
- 1590 Piracicaba357,844
- 1601 Montes Claros355,651
- 1610 Anápolis354,576
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
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 Boa Vista are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Boa Vista 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