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Granada, 
Spain
367,226 people lived in Granada in 2025. It is the 1558th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Spain.
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 Granada grew
Count 10 people in Granada in 1975 and the same count gives 13.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 333,091 people in 2050.
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
Granada through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Granada in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Spain · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Granada is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Spain in 2025, 84 in all, led by Madrid, 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, Granada covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people have grown by 38%.
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 Spain
Its share of Spain
Of every 1,000 people in Spain in 2025, 8 lived in Granada, which is 367,226 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Spain; the coloured squares live in Granada. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1554 Godhra India367,633
- 1555 Xianyou China367,523
- 1556 Gboko Nigeria367,407
- 1557 Riverside United States367,336
- 1558 Granada367,226
- 1559 Gonaïves Haiti367,158
- 1560 Santa Fe Argentina366,960
- 1561 Ratlam India366,958
- 1562 Tong'an China366,871
In Spain, 2025
- 1057 Málaga521,854
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca473,499
- 1428 Alicante397,948
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria381,670
- 1558 Granada367,226
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife357,753
- 1735 Murcia330,966
- 1778 Valladolid323,201
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 Granada 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 Granada 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