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Morelia, 
Mexico
637,430 people lived in Morelia in 2025. It is the 847th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in Mexico.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Morelia grew
For every 10 people in Morelia in 1975, there were 44.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 727,916 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Morelia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Morelia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mexico and its 186 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Mexico City). Morelia 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, Morelia covered 112 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 35 km² of it. That is 55 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 4.4 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 5 lived in Morelia, which is 637,430 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Morelia. 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
- 843 Kumamoto Japan641,185
- 844 Magelang Indonesia640,707
- 845 Cancún637,532
- 846 Jiangyin China637,502
- 847 Morelia637,430
- 848 Jeonju South Korea637,082
- 849 Mianyang China636,781
- 850 Kuningan Indonesia636,447
- 851 Long Xuyên Vietnam635,490
In Mexico, 2025
- 765 Culiacán701,609
- 768 Acapulco699,888
- 811 Veracruz668,350
- 845 Cancún637,532
- 847 Morelia637,430
- 877 Reynosa615,168
- 901 Tampico603,035
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez580,878
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
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 Morelia 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 Morelia 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