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Coventry, 
United Kingdom
427,678 people lived in Coventry in 2025. It is the 1308th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in the United Kingdom.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Coventry governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Coventry grew
Where Coventry had 10 people in 1975, it had 11.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 456,537 people in 2050.
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
Coventry through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Coventry in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United Kingdom · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 150 cities in the United Kingdom in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being London. The ringed dot in colour is Coventry; 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, Coventry covered 99 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 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 by 44%, and its people have grown by 19%.
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 the United Kingdom
Its share of the United Kingdom
Of every 1,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2025, 6 lived in Coventry, which is 427,678 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the United Kingdom, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Coventry's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1304 Cheonan-si South Korea428,378
- 1305 Huidong China428,137
- 1306 Samadon Egypt428,126
- 1307 Khansahib India428,041
- 1308 Coventry427,678
- 1309 Wiesbaden Germany427,270
- 1310 Burao Somalia427,013
- 1311 Hanchuan China426,922
- 1312 Orenburg Russia426,263
In the United Kingdom, 2025
- 1058 Edinburgh521,784
- 1137 Portsmouth488,385
- 1188 Brighton467,937
- 1262 Belfast441,925
- 1308 Coventry427,678
- 1455 Cardiff390,692
- 1473 Bournemouth386,557
- 1637 Middlesbrough349,436
- 1647 Southampton347,446
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 Coventry 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 Coventry 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 →
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