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Corrientes, 
Argentina
392,082 people lived in Corrientes in 2025. It is the 1451st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th largest in Argentina.
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 Corrientes'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 Corrientes grew
Count 10 people in Corrientes in 1975 and the same count gives 26.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 404,665 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Corrientes through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Corrientes in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Argentina · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Corrientes is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Argentina in 2025, 77 in all, led by Buenos Aires, 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, Corrientes covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 82%, and its people are 2.6 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 Argentina
Its share of Argentina
Of every 1,000 people in Argentina in 2025, 9 lived in Corrientes, which is 392,082 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Argentina, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Corrientes's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1447 Santiago del Estero393,257
- 1448 Gonder Ethiopia392,767
- 1449 Jiyuan China392,568
- 1450 Motihari India392,303
- 1451 Corrientes392,082
- 1452 Nadiad India391,934
- 1453 Juba South Sudan391,311
- 1454 Zheba China390,709
- 1455 Cardiff United Kingdom390,692
In Argentina, 2025
- 881 Salta613,956
- 1198 San Juan464,466
- 1391 Resistencia406,337
- 1447 Santiago del Estero393,257
- 1451 Corrientes392,082
- 1513 Posadas375,741
- 1560 Santa Fe366,960
- 2113 San Salvador de Jujuy274,625
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Corrientes 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 Corrientes 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