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Ica, 
Peru
213,644 people lived in Ica in 2025. It is the 2775th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Peru.
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 Ica grew
For every 10 people in Ica in 1975, there were 28.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 305,274 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Ica through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ica in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Peru · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ica is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Peru in 2025, 43 in all, led by Lima, 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, Ica covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.5 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Peru
Its share of Peru
Of every 1,000 people in Peru in 2025, 6 lived in Ica, which is 213,644 people.
How to read this: shrink Peru to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ica; 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
- 2765 Rutshuru Democratic Republic of the Congo214,158
- 2767 Beersheba Israel214,104
- 2769 Juma Uzbekistan214,035
- 2774 Mulia Indonesia213,704
- 2775 Ica213,644
- 2776 Shindand Afghanistan213,596
- 2788 Inayat Killi Pakistan212,640
- 2789 Auchi Nigeria212,634
- 2795 Am Timan Chad212,167
In Peru, 2025
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 Ica 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 Ica 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 →
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