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Edmonton, 
Canada
981,522 people lived in Edmonton in 2025. It is the 524th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Canada.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Edmonton 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 Edmonton grew
Where Edmonton had 10 people in 1980, it had 85.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Edmonton through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Edmonton in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Canada · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Canada and its 56 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Toronto). Edmonton 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, Edmonton covered 332 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 77 km² of it. That is 79 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people are 8.5 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 Canada
Its share of Canada
Of every 100 people in Canada in 2025, 2 lived in Edmonton, which is 981,522 people.
How to read this: shrink Canada to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Edmonton; 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
- 520 Shunqing China990,466
- 521 Porto Portugal990,433
- 522 Linyi China987,615
- 523 Kharameh Iran983,056
- 524 Edmonton981,522
- 525 Jambi Indonesia980,534
- 526 Tainan Taiwan979,987
- 527 Zhuzhou China979,244
- 528 Pekalongan Indonesia978,519
In Canada, 2025
- 74 Toronto5,494,431
- 187 Montreal2,668,723
- 286 Vancouver1,707,865
- 431 Calgary1,197,110
- 524 Edmonton981,522
- 796 Winnipeg679,037
- 900 Ottawa605,121
- 1134 Quebec490,451
- 1226 Surrey454,230
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 Edmonton are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Edmonton 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