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Montes Claros, 
Brazil
355,651 people lived in Montes Claros in 2025. It is the 1601st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 49th 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 Montes Claros'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 Montes Claros grew
Where Montes Claros had 10 people in 1975, it had 46.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 348,931 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: 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
Montes Claros through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Montes Claros in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Montes Claros is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Brazil in 2025, 356 in all, led by São Paulo, 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, Montes Claros covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 60 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 4.7 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Montes Claros, which is 355,651 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Brazil, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Montes Claros's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1597 Memphis United States356,215
- 1598 Tula Russia356,025
- 1599 Qazvin Iran355,865
- 1600 Korba India355,784
- 1601 Montes Claros355,651
- 1602 Vinh Vietnam355,643
- 1603 Satara India355,609
- 1604 Dhubri India355,592
- 1605 Fukuyama Japan355,352
In Brazil, 2025
- 1547 Campina Grande369,184
- 1568 Colina de Laranjeiras365,960
- 1585 Boa Vista360,361
- 1590 Piracicaba357,844
- 1601 Montes Claros355,651
- 1610 Anápolis354,576
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
- 1630 Bauru351,405
- 1652 Francisco Morato346,105
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 Montes Claros 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 Montes Claros 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