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Feira de Santana, 
Brazil
529,185 people lived in Feira de Santana in 2025. It is the 1049th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Brazil.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Feira de Santana grew
Where Feira de Santana had 10 people in 1975, it had 34.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 508,734 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Feira de Santana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Feira de Santana in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brazil and its 356 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is São Paulo). Feira de Santana 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, Feira de Santana covered 78 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 17.1 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Feira de Santana, which is 529,185 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Brazil, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Feira de Santana's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1045 'Adan Yemen530,573
- 1046 Leicester United Kingdom530,264
- 1047 Hatay Türkiye530,262
- 1048 Homel Belarus529,882
- 1049 Feira de Santana529,185
- 1050 Beibei China527,806
- 1051 Langfang China527,161
- 1052 Maroua Cameroon526,702
- 1053 Rohtak India526,540
In Brazil, 2025
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás570,302
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos536,073
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1049 Feira de Santana529,185
- 1068 Juiz de Fora518,218
- 1172 Maringá473,708
- 1176 Macapá471,922
- 1193 Jundiaí465,531
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 Feira de Santana 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 Feira de Santana 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