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Plano, 
United States
367,716 people lived in Plano in 2025. It is the 1553rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st largest in the United States.
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 Plano's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Plano grew
Count 10 people in Plano in 2005 and the same count gives 43.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 412,894 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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
Plano through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Plano in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 348 cities in the United States in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New York City. The ringed dot in colour is Plano; 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, Plano covered 155 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 38 km² of it. That is 103 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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 Plano, which is 367,716 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Plano. 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
- 1549 Shuyang China368,686
- 1550 Thoothukudi India368,221
- 1551 Sivas Türkiye368,209
- 1552 Shihezi China367,883
- 1553 Plano367,716
- 1554 Godhra India367,633
- 1555 Xianyou China367,523
- 1556 Gboko Nigeria367,407
- 1557 Riverside367,336
In the United States, 2025
- 1397 North Richland Hills404,680
- 1419 Stockton398,470
- 1436 Colorado Springs394,888
- 1475 Pittsburgh385,498
- 1553 Plano367,716
- 1557 Riverside367,336
- 1569 Mission Viejo365,221
- 1597 Memphis356,215
- 1606 McAllen355,331
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 Plano are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Plano 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