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Macapá, 
Brazil
471,922 people lived in Macapá in 2025. It is the 1176th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 37th largest in Brazil.
Like every city on this site, Macapá 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 Macapá grew
For every 10 people in Macapá in 1985, there were 51.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 635,680 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Macapá through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Macapá in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 356 cities in Brazil in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being São Paulo. The ringed dot in colour is Macapá; 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, Macapá covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 5.2 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Macapá, which is 471,922 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Macapá. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1172 Maringá473,708
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca Spain473,499
- 1174 La Serena Chile473,325
- 1175 Raebareli India472,091
- 1176 Macapá471,922
- 1177 Piura Peru471,521
- 1178 Chuxiong China471,251
- 1179 Huancayo Peru470,685
- 1180 Kemerovo Russia470,175
In Brazil, 2025
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1049 Feira de Santana529,185
- 1068 Juiz de Fora518,218
- 1172 Maringá473,708
- 1176 Macapá471,922
- 1193 Jundiaí465,531
- 1322 Porto Velho422,943
- 1344 Petrolina418,619
- 1358 São José do Rio Preto414,406
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 Macapá are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Macapá 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