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Ciudad del Este, 
Paraguay
412,725 people lived in Ciudad del Este in 2025. It is the 1363rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Paraguay.
Like every city on this site, Ciudad del Este is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ciudad del Este grew
Where Ciudad del Este had 10 people in 1985, it had 45.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 585,690 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Ciudad del Este through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ciudad del Este in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Paraguay · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ciudad del Este is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Paraguay in 2025, 9 in all, led by Asunción, 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, Ciudad del Este covered 109 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 72 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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 Paraguay
Its share of Paraguay
Of every 100 people in Paraguay in 2025, 6 lived in Ciudad del Este, which is 412,725 people.
How to read this: shrink Paraguay to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ciudad del Este; 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
- 1359 Sareyn Iran413,772
- 1360 Charsadda Pakistan413,686
- 1361 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea413,223
- 1362 Hathras India413,122
- 1363 Ciudad del Este412,725
- 1364 Sanhur Egypt412,618
- 1365 Kaolack Senegal412,347
- 1366 Jixi China412,341
- 1367 Hamhung North Korea412,277
In Paraguay, 2025
- 391 Asunción1,314,663
- 1363 Ciudad del Este412,725
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 Ciudad del Este are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 del Este 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