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La Romana, 
Dominican Republic
250,479 people lived in La Romana in 2025. It is the 2324th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in the Dominican Republic.
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 La Romana grew
Where La Romana had 10 people in 1975, it had 41.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 312,243 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
La Romana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in La Romana in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Dominican Republic · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 17 cities in the Dominican Republic in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Santo Domingo. The ringed dot in colour is La Romana; 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, La Romana covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.0 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 4.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in the Dominican Republic
Its share of the Dominican Republic
Of every 100 people in the Dominican Republic in 2025, 2 lived in La Romana, which is 250,479 people.
How to read this: shrink the Dominican Republic to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in La Romana; 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
- 2318 Jiangyou China251,202
- 2320 Araria India251,001
- 2321 Rangunia Bangladesh250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
- 2324 La Romana250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
In the Dominican Republic, 2025
- 92 Santo Domingo4,600,064
- 792 Santiago de los Caballeros681,087
- 2324 La Romana250,479
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 La Romana 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 La Romana 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