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Cuernavaca, 
Mexico
839,485 people lived in Cuernavaca in 2025. It is the 625th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Mexico.
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 Cuernavaca grew
For every 10 people in Cuernavaca in 1985, there were 39.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 845,465 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Cuernavaca through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cuernavaca in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Cuernavaca 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, Cuernavaca covered 198 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 56 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 6 lived in Cuernavaca, which is 839,485 people.
How to read this: shrink Mexico to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Cuernavaca; 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
- 621 Maracay Venezuela845,329
- 622 Umuahia Nigeria843,245
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur India843,195
- 624 Kotwali India839,900
- 625 Cuernavaca839,485
- 626 Fuyang China839,236
- 627 Colachel India837,735
- 628 Warangal India837,561
- 629 Kermanshah Iran837,230
In Mexico, 2025
- 517 San Luis Potosí992,648
- 590 Querétaro880,361
- 611 Aguascalientes856,387
- 618 Mérida847,166
- 625 Cuernavaca839,485
- 691 Chihuahua771,297
- 698 Hermosillo765,445
- 727 Mexicali737,963
- 728 Saltillo737,662
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 Cuernavaca are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Cuernavaca 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