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Porlamar, 
Venezuela
265,905 people lived in Porlamar in 2025. It is the 2192nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Venezuela.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Porlamar 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 Porlamar grew
Where Porlamar had 10 people in 1985, it had 49.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 369,992 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Porlamar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Porlamar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Porlamar is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Venezuela in 2025, 69 in all, led by Caracas, 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, Porlamar covered 93 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 60 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 10.6 times its size, and its people are 4.9 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 1,000 people in Venezuela in 2025, 9 lived in Porlamar, which is 265,905 people.
How to read this: shrink Venezuela to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Porlamar; 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
- 2186 Bydgoszcz Poland266,908
- 2187 Yaguang China266,899
- 2188 Bihpur India266,585
- 2189 Bijnor India266,240
- 2192 Porlamar265,905
- 2195 Nazareth Israel265,611
- 2196 Kaithal India265,502
- 2197 El Oued Algeria265,408
- 2200 Jining China265,293
In Venezuela, 2025
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira]320,109
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar307,794
- 1965 Barinas295,298
- 2048 Cabimas283,656
- 2192 Porlamar265,905
- 2283 Punto Fijo255,662
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 Porlamar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Porlamar 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