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Ciudad Bolivar, 
Venezuela
307,794 people lived in Ciudad Bolivar in 2025. It is the 1869th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Venezuela.
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 Ciudad Bolivar grew
For every 10 people in Ciudad Bolivar in 1975, there were 23 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 353,309 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
Ciudad Bolivar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ciudad Bolivar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Venezuela and its 69 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Caracas). Ciudad Bolivar is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ciudad Bolivar covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 1 lived in Ciudad Bolivar, which is 307,794 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Venezuela, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ciudad Bolivar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1865 Cangnan China308,925
- 1866 Qoqand Uzbekistan308,393
- 1867 Jacobabad Pakistan308,137
- 1868 Tonghua China308,016
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar307,794
- 1870 Al-Shatrah Iraq307,652
- 1871 Tapachula Mexico307,334
- 1872 Jinshan China307,246
- 1873 Damoh India307,218
In Venezuela, 2025
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira]320,109
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar307,794
- 1965 Barinas295,298
- 2048 Cabimas283,656
- 2192 Porlamar265,905
- 2283 Punto Fijo255,662
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ciudad Bolivar 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 Ciudad Bolivar 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