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Franca, 
Brazil
337,878 people lived in Franca in 2025. It is the 1692nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 54th largest in Brazil.
Like every city on this site, Franca is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Franca grew
Count 10 people in Franca in 1975 and the same count gives 52.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 341,478 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: 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
Franca through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Franca in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 356 cities in Brazil in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being São Paulo. The ringed dot in colour is Franca; 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, Franca covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 65 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 5.3 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Franca, which is 337,878 people.
How to read this: shrink Brazil to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Franca; 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
- 1688 Naogaon Bangladesh338,623
- 1689 Naga Philippines338,596
- 1690 Ikere-Ekiti Nigeria338,367
- 1691 Rubavu Rwanda337,963
- 1692 Franca337,878
- 1693 Vilnius Lithuania337,871
- 1694 Sihui China337,299
- 1695 Mandi Bahauddin Pakistan337,161
- 1696 Thakurdwara India336,772
In Brazil, 2025
- 1610 Anápolis354,576
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
- 1630 Bauru351,405
- 1652 Francisco Morato346,105
- 1692 Franca337,878
- 1725 Rio Branco332,810
- 1734 Gravataí330,969
- 1766 Canoas325,022
- 1834 Uberaba312,745
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 Franca 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 Franca 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