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Cúcuta, 
Colombia
848,408 people lived in Cúcuta in 2025. It is the 617th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Colombia.
Like every city on this site, Cúcuta is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cúcuta grew
Count 10 people in Cúcuta in 1975 and the same count gives 34.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 906,299 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Cúcuta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cúcuta in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Colombia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Colombia and its 81 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Bogotá). Cúcuta is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Cúcuta covered 120 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Colombia
Its share of Colombia
Of every 100 people in Colombia in 2025, 2 lived in Cúcuta, which is 848,408 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Colombia; the coloured squares live in Cúcuta. 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
- 613 Abbottabad Pakistan851,819
- 614 Haizhou District China850,645
- 615 Port Said Egypt849,767
- 616 Muzaffarnagar India849,004
- 617 Cúcuta848,408
- 618 Mérida Mexico847,166
- 619 Gujrat Pakistan846,968
- 620 Faiyum Egypt846,831
- 621 Maracay Venezuela845,329
In Colombia, 2025
- 184 Cali2,700,232
- 228 Barranquilla2,208,021
- 510 Cartagena1,008,584
- 555 Bucaramanga939,291
- 617 Cúcuta848,408
- 902 Pereira602,831
- 954 Valledupar574,824
- 1122 Ibagué494,316
- 1259 Santa Marta442,455
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 Cúcuta 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 Cúcuta 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