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Minneapolis [Saint Paul], 
United States
1,107,243 people lived in Minneapolis [Saint Paul] in 2025. It is the 466th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in the United States.
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 Minneapolis [Saint Paul]'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 Minneapolis [Saint Paul] grew
Count 10 people in Minneapolis [Saint Paul] in 1975 and the same count gives 21.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Minneapolis [Saint Paul] through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Minneapolis [Saint Paul] in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Minneapolis [Saint Paul] is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United States in 2025, 348 in all, led by New York City, 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, Minneapolis [Saint Paul] covered 497 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 118 km² of it. That is 106 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 3 lived in Minneapolis [Saint Paul], which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Minneapolis [Saint Paul]; 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
- 462 Auckland New Zealand1,123,094
- 463 Belgrade Serbia1,121,410
- 464 Enugu Nigeria1,115,303
- 465 Berhampore India1,109,144
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul]1,107,243
- 467 East Jerusalem Palestine1,105,567
- 468 Solapur India1,102,702
- 469 Tianjia‘an China1,100,258
- 470 Yancheng China1,093,432
In the United States, 2025
- 363 Mesa1,398,369
- 364 Portland1,397,788
- 370 Fort Lauderdale1,368,027
- 451 Baltimore1,145,219
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul]1,107,243
- 595 Saint Petersburg877,183
- 653 Detroit809,894
- 732 Columbus731,335
- 764 Milwaukee701,928
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Minneapolis [Saint Paul] 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 Minneapolis [Saint Paul] 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