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Copperfield, 
United States
279,805 people lived in Copperfield in 2025. It is the 2076th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 69th largest in the United States.
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 Copperfield grew
Where Copperfield had 10 people in 1995, it had 25.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 376,823 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Copperfield through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Copperfield in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 348 cities in the United States in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New York City. The ringed dot in colour is Copperfield; 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, Copperfield covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 89 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Copperfield, which is 279,805 people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Copperfield; 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
- 2072 Tundla India280,215
- 2073 Kofu Japan280,212
- 2074 Mary Turkmenistan280,172
- 2075 Southend-on-Sea United Kingdom280,158
- 2076 Copperfield279,805
- 2079 Mweka Democratic Republic of the Congo279,312
- 2080 Ekma India279,229
- 2081 Salalah Oman279,161
- 2082 Medininagar India278,795
In the United States, 2025
- 1996 Louisville291,103
- 1998 Euclid290,669
- 2011 Tacoma289,128
- 2049 Poway283,508
- 2076 Copperfield279,805
- 2116 Gaithersburg274,439
- 2176 Bellevue267,696
- 2238 The Woodlands260,732
- 2247 Hazel Dell259,716
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 Copperfield are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Copperfield 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