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Grenoble, 
France
359,128 people lived in Grenoble in 2025. It is the 1587th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in France.
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 Grenoble'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 Grenoble grew
Where Grenoble had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 376,915 people in 2050.
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
Grenoble through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Grenoble in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
France · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 71 cities in France in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Paris. The ringed dot in colour is Grenoble; 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, Grenoble covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 59 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people have grown by 28%.
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 France
Its share of France
Of every 1,000 people in France in 2025, 5 lived in Grenoble, which is 359,128 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in France; the coloured squares live in Grenoble. 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
- 1583 Dilla Ethiopia360,925
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
- 1585 Boa Vista Brazil360,361
- 1586 Fallujah Iraq359,695
- 1587 Grenoble359,128
- 1588 Danyang City China358,677
- 1589 Pilibhit India358,059
- 1590 Piracicaba Brazil357,844
- 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
In France, 2025
- 856 Bordeaux631,551
- 1227 Nantes453,523
- 1345 Nice418,294
- 1424 Strasbourg398,175
- 1587 Grenoble359,128
- 1772 Montpellier324,059
- 1844 Rouen311,071
- 1925 Toulon298,777
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 Grenoble 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 Grenoble 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