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Bogotá, 
Colombia
10,624,315 people lived in Bogotá in 2025. It is the 31st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Colombia, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Bogotá governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bogotá grew
For every 10 people in Bogotá in 1975, there were 31.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 12.5 million people in 2050. It passed ten million people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bogotá through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bogotá in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Colombia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 81 cities in Colombia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there. The ringed dot in colour is Bogotá; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bogotá covered 542 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 169 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 61%, and its people are 3.1 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 Colombia
Its share of Colombia
Of every 100 people in Colombia in 2025, 20 lived in Bogotá, which is 10.6 million people.
How to read this: shrink Colombia to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Bogotá; 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
- 27 Los Angeles United States12,740,420
- 28 Luanda Angola11,370,127
- 29 Chennai India11,153,205
- 30 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo10,943,641
- 31 Bogotá10,624,315
- 32 Lima Peru10,580,241
- 33 London United Kingdom10,416,420
- 34 Hajipur India9,941,510
- 35 Rio de Janeiro Brazil9,500,336
In Colombia, 2025
- 31 Bogotá10,624,315
- 139 Medellín3,350,384
- 184 Cali2,700,232
- 228 Barranquilla2,208,021
- 510 Cartagena1,008,584
- 555 Bucaramanga939,291
- 617 Cúcuta848,408
- 902 Pereira602,831
- 954 Valledupar574,824
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 Bogotá 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 Bogotá 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