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Palma de Mallorca, 
Spain
473,499 people lived in Palma de Mallorca in 2025. It is the 1173rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Spain.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Palma de Mallorca governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Palma de Mallorca grew
Count 10 people in Palma de Mallorca in 1975 and the same count gives 21.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 565,669 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
Palma de Mallorca through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Palma de Mallorca in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Spain · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Palma de Mallorca is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Spain in 2025, 84 in all, led by Madrid, 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, Palma de Mallorca covered 87 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Spain
Its share of Spain
Of every 1,000 people in Spain in 2025, 10 lived in Palma de Mallorca, which is 473,499 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Spain; the coloured squares live in Palma de Mallorca. 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
- 1169 Jinzhong China473,959
- 1170 Oshogbo Nigeria473,929
- 1171 Ghazipur India473,824
- 1172 Maringá Brazil473,708
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca473,499
- 1174 La Serena Chile473,325
- 1175 Raebareli India472,091
- 1176 Macapá Brazil471,922
- 1177 Piura Peru471,521
In Spain, 2025
- 721 Bilbao741,795
- 769 Seville699,504
- 934 Zaragoza585,533
- 1057 Málaga521,854
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca473,499
- 1428 Alicante397,948
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria381,670
- 1558 Granada367,226
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife357,753
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 Palma de Mallorca 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 Palma de Mallorca 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