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Lublin, 
Poland
300,013 people lived in Lublin in 2025. It is the 1914th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Poland.
Like every city on this site, Lublin 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 Lublin grew
Count 10 people in Lublin in 1975 and the same count gives 11.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 284,255 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
Lublin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lublin in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Poland · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lublin is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Poland in 2025, 60 in all, led by Warsaw, 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, Lublin covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 54 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 80%, and its people have grown by 19%.
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 Poland
Its share of Poland
Of every 1,000 people in Poland in 2025, 8 lived in Lublin, which is 300,013 people.
How to read this: shrink Poland to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Lublin; 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
- 1910 Sirsa India300,414
- 1911 Szczecin300,314
- 1912 Biskra Algeria300,313
- 1913 Orizaba Mexico300,041
- 1914 Lublin300,013
- 1915 Merca Somalia299,906
- 1916 Caruaru Brazil299,805
- 1917 Menongue Angola299,802
- 1918 Anantnag India299,385
In Poland, 2025
- 1121 Poznan494,839
- 1478 Gdansk384,985
- 1804 Sosnowiec318,955
- 1911 Szczecin300,314
- 1914 Lublin300,013
- 2186 Bydgoszcz266,908
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 Lublin 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 Lublin 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