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Orlando, 
United States
477,249 people lived in Orlando in 2025. It is the 1165th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th largest in the United States.
Like every city on this site, Orlando is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Orlando grew
For every 10 people in Orlando in 2000, there were 81.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 870,930 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Orlando through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Orlando in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Orlando is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United States in 2025, 348 in all, led by New York 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, Orlando covered 250 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 57 km² of it. That is 120 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 7.9 times its size, and its people are 8.1 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Orlando, which is 477,249 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Orlando. 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
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih Ukraine477,940
- 1162 Gonda India477,697
- 1163 Tomsk Russia477,632
- 1164 Zigong China477,271
- 1165 Orlando477,249
- 1166 Etawah India475,213
- 1167 Gusau Nigeria475,004
- 1168 Annaba Algeria474,367
- 1169 Jinzhong China473,959
In the United States, 2025
- 1015 Salt Lake City542,449
- 1022 Honolulu540,683
- 1098 Bakersfield503,676
- 1136 Provo488,429
- 1165 Orlando477,249
- 1202 West Valley City463,325
- 1212 Atlanta458,225
- 1284 Sterling Heights435,980
- 1302 Providence429,694
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Orlando are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Orlando 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