Topics
Murcia, 
Spain
330,966 people lived in Murcia in 2025. It is the 1735th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 13th largest in Spain.
Like every city on this site, Murcia 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 Murcia grew
For every 10 people in Murcia in 1975, there were 25.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 335,172 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Murcia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Murcia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Spain · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 84 cities in Spain in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Madrid. The ringed dot in colour is Murcia; 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, Murcia covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Spain
Its share of Spain
Of every 1,000 people in Spain in 2025, 7 lived in Murcia, which is 330,966 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Spain, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Murcia's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1731 Cap-Haitien Haiti331,899
- 1732 Liaoyuan China331,469
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo Mexico331,195
- 1734 Gravataí Brazil330,969
- 1735 Murcia330,966
- 1736 Ikare Nigeria330,941
- 1737 Erin-osun Nigeria330,484
- 1738 Xuanwei China330,467
- 1739 Dashiqiao China330,302
In Spain, 2025
- 1428 Alicante397,948
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria381,670
- 1558 Granada367,226
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife357,753
- 1735 Murcia330,966
- 1778 Valladolid323,201
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 Murcia 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 Murcia 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