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Maturin, 
Venezuela
452,835 people lived in Maturin in 2025. It is the 1231st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Venezuela.
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 Maturin'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 Maturin grew
Count 10 people in Maturin in 1975 and the same count gives 86.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 533,710 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Maturin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maturin in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 69 cities in Venezuela in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Caracas. The ringed dot in colour is Maturin; 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, Maturin covered 93 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 10.8 times its size, and its people are 8.7 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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 2 lived in Maturin, which is 452,835 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 Maturin; 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
- 1227 Nantes France453,523
- 1228 Chimoio Mozambique453,521
- 1229 Catania Italy453,376
- 1230 Shashamane Ethiopia452,945
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1232 Jiangyang China452,500
- 1233 Polokwane South Africa451,786
- 1234 Haripur Pakistan451,578
- 1235 Ilesa Nigeria450,464
In Venezuela, 2025
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira]320,109
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 Maturin 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 Maturin 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