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Culiacán, 
Mexico
701,609 people lived in Culiacán in 2025. It is the 765th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Mexico.
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 Culiacán'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 Culiacán grew
Where Culiacán had 10 people in 1975, it had 35.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 725,362 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
Culiacán through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Culiacán in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Culiacán 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, Culiacán covered 147 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 3.6 times as many.
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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 5 lived in Culiacán, which is 701,609 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Mexico, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Culiacán's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 761 Yiyang China703,724
- 762 Tai'an China703,020
- 763 Qingyuan China702,881
- 764 Milwaukee United States701,928
- 765 Culiacán701,609
- 766 Akure Nigeria700,747
- 767 Deyang China700,386
- 768 Acapulco699,888
- 769 Seville Spain699,504
In Mexico, 2025
- 691 Chihuahua771,297
- 698 Hermosillo765,445
- 727 Mexicali737,963
- 728 Saltillo737,662
- 765 Culiacán701,609
- 768 Acapulco699,888
- 811 Veracruz668,350
- 845 Cancún637,532
- 847 Morelia637,430
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 Culiacán 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 Culiacán 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