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Oaxaca de Juárez, 
Mexico
502,534 people lived in Oaxaca de Juárez in 2025. It is the 1101st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th largest in Mexico.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Oaxaca de Juárez governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Oaxaca de Juárez grew
Where Oaxaca de Juárez had 10 people in 1980, it had 54.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 544,873 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Oaxaca de Juárez through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Oaxaca de Juárez in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 186 cities in Mexico in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Mexico City. The ringed dot in colour is Oaxaca de Juárez; 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, Oaxaca de Juárez covered 119 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 5.5 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 4 lived in Oaxaca de Juárez, which is 502,534 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 Oaxaca de Juárez; 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
- 1097 Mansehra Pakistan503,920
- 1098 Bakersfield United States503,676
- 1099 Nha Trang Vietnam503,051
- 1100 Anqing China503,036
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
- 1102 Barnaul Russia502,491
- 1103 Lakhimpur India501,540
- 1104 Dairut Egypt501,258
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode Nigeria500,036
In Mexico, 2025
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez580,878
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
- 1152 Villahermosa481,525
- 1219 Irapuato456,628
- 1379 Mazatlán409,143
- 1408 Tepic401,753
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 Oaxaca de Juárez are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Oaxaca de Juárez 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