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Chimbote, 
Peru
350,281 people lived in Chimbote in 2025. It is the 1635th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Peru.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chimbote 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 Chimbote grew
Where Chimbote had 10 people in 1975, it had 18.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 384,803 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Chimbote through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chimbote in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Peru · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chimbote is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Peru in 2025, 43 in all, led by Lima, 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, Chimbote covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 63%, and its people have grown by 87%.
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 Peru
Its share of Peru
Of every 100 people in Peru in 2025, 1 lived in Chimbote, which is 350,281 people.
How to read this: shrink Peru to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Chimbote; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu Democratic Republic of the Congo351,319
- 1632 Xinyang China351,064
- 1633 Purulia India350,713
- 1634 Dahod India350,660
- 1635 Chimbote350,281
- 1636 Setif Algeria349,825
- 1637 Middlesbrough United Kingdom349,436
- 1638 Palu Indonesia348,948
- 1639 Simri India348,804
In Peru, 2025
- 957 Caleta Sanitaria572,154
- 1133 Cusco490,968
- 1177 Piura471,521
- 1179 Huancayo470,685
- 1635 Chimbote350,281
- 1754 Tacna327,582
- 1875 Juliaca306,990
- 2111 Pucallpa274,639
- 2775 Ica213,644
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 Chimbote 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 Chimbote 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