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Ciudad Guayana, 
Venezuela
535,164 people lived in Ciudad Guayana in 2025. It is the 1033rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Venezuela.
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 Ciudad Guayana'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 Ciudad Guayana grew
Where Ciudad Guayana had 10 people in 1975, it had 17.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 605,490 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
Ciudad Guayana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ciudad Guayana in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 69 cities in Venezuela in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Caracas. The ringed dot in colour is Ciudad Guayana; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ciudad Guayana covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 78%.
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, 2 lived in Ciudad Guayana, which is 535,164 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Venezuela; the coloured squares live in Ciudad Guayana. 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
- 1029 Xianyang China537,601
- 1030 Buram Sudan537,169
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil536,073
- 1032 Bettiah India535,979
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1034 Ndola Zambia535,108
- 1035 Bengbu China535,096
- 1036 Swabi Pakistan535,083
- 1037 Shillong India534,861
In Venezuela, 2025
- 353 Valencia1,435,894
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
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 Guayana 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 Guayana 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