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Orizaba, 
Mexico
300,041 people lived in Orizaba in 2025. It is the 1913th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 43rd largest in Mexico.
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 Orizaba's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Orizaba grew
For every 10 people in Orizaba in 1975, there were 34.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 322,763 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Orizaba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Orizaba 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 Orizaba; 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, Orizaba covered 67 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 53 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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, 2 lived in Orizaba, which is 300,041 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Orizaba. 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
- 1909 Shaistaganj Bangladesh300,465
- 1910 Sirsa India300,414
- 1911 Szczecin Poland300,314
- 1912 Biskra Algeria300,313
- 1913 Orizaba300,041
- 1914 Lublin Poland300,013
- 1915 Merca Somalia299,906
- 1916 Caruaru Brazil299,805
- 1917 Menongue Angola299,802
In Mexico, 2025
- 1769 Uruapan324,219
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria322,403
- 1846 Pachuca310,805
- 1871 Tapachula307,334
- 1913 Orizaba300,041
- 1942 Coatzacoalcos297,319
- 1960 Colima295,757
- 2065 Heroica Nogales281,580
- 2140 Zacatecas271,829
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 Orizaba 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 Orizaba 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