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Chihuahua, 
Mexico
771,297 people lived in Chihuahua in 2025. It is the 691st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Mexico.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chihuahua grew
For every 10 people in Chihuahua in 1975, there were 22.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 785,165 people in 2050.
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
Chihuahua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chihuahua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chihuahua is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico City, 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, Chihuahua covered 162 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 53 km² of it. That is 69 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 6 lived in Chihuahua, which is 771,297 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Mexico, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Chihuahua's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 687 Changshu China774,010
- 688 Evaton South Africa773,229
- 689 Amravati India771,610
- 690 Saratov Russia771,355
- 691 Chihuahua771,297
- 692 Cape Town India770,260
- 693 Nanded India770,215
- 694 Eskisehir Türkiye766,333
- 695 Yiwu China766,253
In Mexico, 2025
- 590 Querétaro880,361
- 611 Aguascalientes856,387
- 618 Mérida847,166
- 625 Cuernavaca839,485
- 691 Chihuahua771,297
- 698 Hermosillo765,445
- 727 Mexicali737,963
- 728 Saltillo737,662
- 765 Culiacán701,609
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 Chihuahua 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 Chihuahua 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