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Ciudad Victoria, 
Mexico
322,403 people lived in Ciudad Victoria in 2025. It is the 1781st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th largest in Mexico.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ciudad Victoria 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 Ciudad Victoria grew
Where Ciudad Victoria had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 331,547 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 Victoria through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ciudad Victoria in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ciudad Victoria 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, Ciudad Victoria covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 59 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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, 2 lived in Ciudad Victoria, which is 322,403 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Ciudad Victoria. 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
- 1777 Lucena Philippines323,308
- 1778 Valladolid Spain323,201
- 1779 Buffalo United States322,892
- 1780 Parma United States322,420
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria322,403
- 1782 Kirov Russia322,377
- 1783 Hull United Kingdom322,100
- 1784 Mulongo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,881
- 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
In Mexico, 2025
- 1534 Celaya372,139
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo331,195
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón326,226
- 1769 Uruapan324,219
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria322,403
- 1846 Pachuca310,805
- 1871 Tapachula307,334
- 1913 Orizaba300,041
- 1942 Coatzacoalcos297,319
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 Victoria 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 Victoria 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