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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 
Spain
381,670 people lived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2025. It is the 1489th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Spain.
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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria'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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria grew
For every 10 people in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1975, there were 14.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 372,353 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
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Spain · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Spain and its 84 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Madrid). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people have grown by 43%.
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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which is 381,670 people.
How to read this: shrink Spain to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; 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
- 1485 Rewa India383,019
- 1486 Badaun India382,686
- 1487 Pohang-si South Korea382,368
- 1488 Guangyuan China381,738
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria381,670
- 1490 Changji/Sanji China381,391
- 1491 Kas Sudan381,286
- 1492 Bandar Abbas Iran381,008
- 1493 Mahilioŭ Belarus380,951
In Spain, 2025
- 934 Zaragoza585,533
- 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: 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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