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Bordeaux, 
France
631,551 people lived in Bordeaux in 2025. It is the 856th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in France.
Like every city on this site, Bordeaux 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 Bordeaux grew
For every 10 people in Bordeaux in 1975, there were 14.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 673,851 people in 2050.
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
Bordeaux through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bordeaux in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
France · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: France and its 71 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Paris). Bordeaux 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, Bordeaux covered 182 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 49 km² of it. That is 78 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 46%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in France
Its share of France
Of every 1,000 people in France in 2025, 9 lived in Bordeaux, which is 631,551 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in France; the coloured squares live in Bordeaux. 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
- 852 Liaoyang China635,212
- 853 Huambo Angola634,669
- 854 Fangshan China633,763
- 855 Al-Fashir Sudan633,077
- 856 Bordeaux631,551
- 857 Yuxi China631,209
- 858 Ajmer India631,176
- 859 Qujing China630,828
- 860 Benghazi Libya630,479
In France, 2025
- 429 Lyon1,202,985
- 578 Lille893,282
- 581 Marseille891,463
- 839 Toulouse642,224
- 856 Bordeaux631,551
- 1227 Nantes453,523
- 1345 Nice418,294
- 1424 Strasbourg398,175
- 1587 Grenoble359,128
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 Bordeaux 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 Bordeaux 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