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Legazpi, 
Philippines
276,662 people lived in Legazpi in 2025. It is the 2099th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th largest in the Philippines.
Like every city on this site, Legazpi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Legazpi grew
Where Legazpi had 10 people in 1980, it had 39.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 339,024 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Legazpi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Legazpi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 114 cities in the Philippines in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Manila. The ringed dot in colour is Legazpi; 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, Legazpi covered 78 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.3 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 2 lived in Legazpi, which is 276,662 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Philippines, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Legazpi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2093 Taunggyi Myanmar277,312
- 2095 Iwo Nigeria277,101
- 2096 Sarh Chad276,978
- 2097 Binangonan276,785
- 2099 Legazpi276,662
- 2101 San Pablo276,250
- 2103 Jiroft Iran276,001
- 2104 Iași Romania275,840
- 2105 Erin Woods Canada275,476
In the Philippines, 2025
- 1777 Lucena323,308
- 1890 Tagum303,614
- 2042 Tacloban285,095
- 2097 Binangonan276,785
- 2099 Legazpi276,662
- 2101 San Pablo276,250
- 2132 Cabanatuan272,890
- 2394 Panabo244,050
- 4537 Marawi134,181
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 Legazpi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Legazpi 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