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Montería, 
Colombia
339,380 people lived in Montería in 2025. It is the 1685th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Colombia.
Like every city on this site, Montería 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 Montería grew
For every 10 people in Montería in 1975, there were 28.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 386,644 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Montería through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Montería in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Colombia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Montería is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Colombia in 2025, 81 in all, led by Bogotá, 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, Montería covered 40 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Colombia
Its share of Colombia
Of every 1,000 people in Colombia in 2025, 6 lived in Montería, which is 339,380 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Colombia; the coloured squares live in Montería. 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
- 1681 Wazirabad Pakistan340,058
- 1682 Birpur India339,926
- 1683 Bo'ai China339,876
- 1684 Bhagalpur India339,560
- 1685 Montería339,380
- 1686 Çerkezköy Türkiye338,995
- 1687 Yan'an China338,883
- 1688 Naogaon Bangladesh338,623
- 1689 Naga Philippines338,596
In Colombia, 2025
- 1266 Manizales440,407
- 1272 Buenaventura438,063
- 1484 Villavicencio383,028
- 1537 Pasto371,637
- 1685 Montería339,380
- 1716 Neiva333,744
- 1802 Armenia319,234
- 1964 Sincelejo295,401
- 2058 Chía282,679
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 Montería 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 Montería 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