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Cumana, 
Venezuela
379,333 people lived in Cumana in 2025. It is the 1498th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Venezuela.
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 Cumana'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 Cumana grew
Where Cumana had 10 people in 1975, it had 26.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 451,938 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Cumana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cumana in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 69 cities in Venezuela in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Caracas. The ringed dot in colour is Cumana; 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, Cumana covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 86%, and its people are 2.6 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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 1 lived in Cumana, which is 379,333 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Venezuela, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Cumana's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1494 Dongyang China380,793
- 1495 Mbale City Uganda380,565
- 1496 KUNDULUN Nigeria380,118
- 1497 Al-Asafra Egypt379,559
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1499 Laiwu China379,135
- 1500 Lop Buri Thailand378,160
- 1501 Bengkulu Indonesia378,066
- 1502 Tripoli Lebanon377,937
In Venezuela, 2025
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira]320,109
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar307,794
- 1965 Barinas295,298
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 Cumana 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 Cumana 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