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Novo Hamburgo, 
Brazil
533,686 people lived in Novo Hamburgo in 2025. It is the 1040th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 33rd 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 Novo Hamburgo'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 Novo Hamburgo grew
Where Novo Hamburgo had 10 people in 1975, it had 29.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 503,490 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Novo Hamburgo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Novo Hamburgo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Novo Hamburgo 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, Novo Hamburgo covered 155 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 75 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 3 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, 3 lived in Novo Hamburgo, which is 533,686 people.
How to read this: shrink Brazil to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Novo Hamburgo; 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
- 1036 Swabi Pakistan535,083
- 1037 Shillong India534,861
- 1038 Ahmednagar India534,622
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1041 Kanazawa Japan533,682
- 1042 Genoa Italy532,509
- 1043 Zahedan Iran531,482
- 1044 Bozhou China531,429
In Brazil, 2025
- 910 Londrina598,731
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás570,302
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos536,073
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1049 Feira de Santana529,185
- 1068 Juiz de Fora518,218
- 1172 Maringá473,708
- 1176 Macapá471,922
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 Novo Hamburgo 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 Novo Hamburgo 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