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Maringá, 
Brazil
473,708 people lived in Maringá in 2025. It is the 1172nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Brazil.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Maringá's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maringá grew
Where Maringá had 10 people in 1975, it had 39.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 458,384 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Maringá through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maringá in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brazil and its 356 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is São Paulo). Maringá 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, Maringá covered 112 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 71 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 4 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 Maringá, which is 473,708 people.
How to read this: shrink Brazil to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Maringá; 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
- 1168 Annaba Algeria474,367
- 1169 Jinzhong China473,959
- 1170 Oshogbo Nigeria473,929
- 1171 Ghazipur India473,824
- 1172 Maringá473,708
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca Spain473,499
- 1174 La Serena Chile473,325
- 1175 Raebareli India472,091
- 1176 Macapá471,922
In Brazil, 2025
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 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
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 Maringá 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 Maringá 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