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Canoas, 
Brazil
325,022 people lived in Canoas in 2025. It is the 1766th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 57th largest in Brazil.
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 Canoas's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Canoas grew
Where Canoas had 10 people in 1975, it had 22.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 307,738 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Canoas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Canoas 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 Canoas; 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, Canoas covered 75 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 68 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Canoas, which is 325,022 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Canoas. 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
- 1762 Rishikesh India325,933
- 1763 Khanakul India325,882
- 1764 Sanandaj Iran325,425
- 1765 Jiaonan China325,383
- 1766 Canoas325,022
- 1767 Sumedang Indonesia324,936
- 1768 Kaiping China324,576
- 1769 Uruapan Mexico324,219
- 1770 Pandeglang Indonesia324,139
In Brazil, 2025
- 1652 Francisco Morato346,105
- 1692 Franca337,878
- 1725 Rio Branco332,810
- 1734 Gravataí330,969
- 1766 Canoas325,022
- 1834 Uberaba312,745
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes310,590
- 1857 Taubaté310,170
- 1916 Caruaru299,805
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 Canoas 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 Canoas 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 →
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