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Lucena, 
Philippines
323,308 people lived in Lucena in 2025. It is the 1777th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in the Philippines.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lucena grew
Count 10 people in Lucena in 1975 and the same count gives 48.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 369,751 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Lucena through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lucena in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the Philippines and its 114 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Manila). Lucena 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, Lucena covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.5 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 3.9 times its size, and its people are 4.8 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in the Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 3 lived in Lucena, which is 323,308 people.
How to read this: shrink the Philippines to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Lucena; 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
- 1773 Lieshan China323,702
- 1774 Bodeh Indonesia323,511
- 1775 Huangshan China323,492
- 1776 Hải Dương Vietnam323,442
- 1777 Lucena323,308
- 1778 Valladolid Spain323,201
- 1779 Buffalo United States322,892
- 1780 Parma United States322,420
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria Mexico322,403
In the Philippines, 2025
- 1110 General Santos498,098
- 1357 Batangas City415,103
- 1676 Iligan341,172
- 1689 Naga338,596
- 1777 Lucena323,308
- 1890 Tagum303,614
- 2042 Tacloban285,095
- 2097 Binangonan276,785
- 2099 Legazpi276,662
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 Lucena 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 Lucena 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