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Maracay, 
Venezuela
845,329 people lived in Maracay in 2025. It is the 621st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Venezuela.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Maracay governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maracay grew
Where Maracay had 10 people in 1975, it had 33.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 887,948 people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Maracay through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maracay in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Maracay is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Venezuela in 2025, 69 in all, led by Caracas, 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, Maracay covered 151 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 42 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 3.4 times as many.
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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 3 lived in Maracay, which is 845,329 people.
How to read this: shrink Venezuela to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Maracay; 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
- 617 Cúcuta Colombia848,408
- 618 Mérida Mexico847,166
- 619 Gujrat Pakistan846,968
- 620 Faiyum Egypt846,831
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 622 Umuahia Nigeria843,245
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur India843,195
- 624 Kotwali India839,900
- 625 Cuernavaca Mexico839,485
In Venezuela, 2025
- 195 Caracas2,576,666
- 243 Maracaibo2,030,633
- 353 Valencia1,435,894
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
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 Maracay 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 Maracay 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