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Nuevo Laredo, 
Mexico
331,195 people lived in Nuevo Laredo in 2025. It is the 1733rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 37th 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 Nuevo Laredo grew
For every 10 people in Nuevo Laredo in 1975, there were 20.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 390,843 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: 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
Nuevo Laredo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nuevo Laredo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nuevo Laredo is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico City, 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, Nuevo Laredo covered 82 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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, 3 lived in Nuevo Laredo, which is 331,195 people.
How to read this: shrink Mexico to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Nuevo Laredo; 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
- 1729 Yokkaichi Japan332,173
- 1730 Chandausi India331,969
- 1731 Cap-Haitien Haiti331,899
- 1732 Liaoyuan China331,469
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo331,195
- 1734 Gravataí Brazil330,969
- 1735 Murcia Spain330,966
- 1736 Ikare Nigeria330,941
- 1737 Erin-osun Nigeria330,484
In Mexico, 2025
- 1379 Mazatlán409,143
- 1408 Tepic401,753
- 1529 La Paz372,988
- 1534 Celaya372,139
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo331,195
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón326,226
- 1769 Uruapan324,219
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria322,403
- 1846 Pachuca310,805
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 Nuevo Laredo 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 Nuevo Laredo 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