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Campos dos Goytacazes, 
Brazil
310,590 people lived in Campos dos Goytacazes in 2025. It is the 1851st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 59th largest in Brazil.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Campos dos Goytacazes 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 Campos dos Goytacazes grew
Where Campos dos Goytacazes had 10 people in 1975, it had 28.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 304,876 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Campos dos Goytacazes through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Campos dos Goytacazes in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 356 cities in Brazil in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being São Paulo. The ringed dot in colour is Campos dos Goytacazes; 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, Campos dos Goytacazes covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 95%, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 1 lived in Campos dos Goytacazes, which is 310,590 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Campos dos Goytacazes. 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
- 1847 Brno Czechia310,796
- 1848 Cluj-Napoca Romania310,650
- 1849 Gorgan Iran310,644
- 1850 Aktau Kazakhstan310,607
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes310,590
- 1852 Sungai Petani Malaysia310,566
- 1853 Emeishan China310,503
- 1854 Kanggye North Korea310,432
- 1855 Yuanlin City Taiwan310,380
In Brazil, 2025
- 1725 Rio Branco332,810
- 1734 Gravataí330,969
- 1766 Canoas325,022
- 1834 Uberaba312,745
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes310,590
- 1857 Taubaté310,170
- 1916 Caruaru299,805
- 2495 Blumenau234,982
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 Campos dos Goytacazes 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 Campos dos Goytacazes 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