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Holguín, 
Cuba
312,173 people lived in Holguín in 2025. It is the 1840th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Cuba.
Like every city on this site, Holguín is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Holguín grew
For every 10 people in Holguín in 1975, there were 12.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 283,507 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Holguín through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Holguín in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Cuba · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Holguín is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Cuba in 2025, 28 in all, led by Havana, 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, Holguín covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 54%, and its people have grown by 27%.
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 Cuba
Its share of Cuba
Of every 100 people in Cuba in 2025, 3 lived in Holguín, which is 312,173 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Cuba, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Holguín's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1836 Kebumen Indonesia312,542
- 1837 Bidar India312,534
- 1838 Antsiramandroso Madagascar312,434
- 1839 Vizianagaram India312,315
- 1840 Holguín312,173
- 1841 Simri Bakhtiarpur India311,434
- 1842 Oshawa Canada311,294
- 1843 Arlington United States311,130
- 1844 Rouen France311,071
In Cuba, 2025
- 309 Havana1,593,580
- 1303 Santiago de Cuba429,537
- 1840 Holguín312,173
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 Holguín 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 Holguín 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