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Caracas, 
Venezuela
2,576,666 people lived in Caracas in 2025. It is the 195th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Venezuela, where it is the capital.
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 Caracas's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Caracas grew
Where Caracas had 10 people in 1975, it had 10.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.6 million people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Caracas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Caracas in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Caracas is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Venezuela in 2025, 69 in all, 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, Caracas covered 308 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 73 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 85%, and its people have grown by 6%.
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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 9 lived in Caracas, which is 2.6 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Venezuela; the coloured squares live in Caracas. 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
- 191 Birmingham United Kingdom2,631,757
- 192 Kiev Ukraine2,614,581
- 193 Wuxi China2,613,100
- 194 Milan Italy2,599,022
- 195 Caracas2,576,666
- 196 Manchester United Kingdom2,535,427
- 197 Quito Ecuador2,534,914
- 198 Cotonou Benin2,506,489
- 199 Bhopal India2,487,205
In Venezuela, 2025
- 195 Caracas2,576,666
- 243 Maracaibo2,030,633
- 353 Valencia1,435,894
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
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 Caracas 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 Caracas 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