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Praia Grande, 
Brazil
352,067 people lived in Praia Grande in 2025. It is the 1627th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st largest in Brazil.
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 Praia Grande'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 Praia Grande grew
Count 10 people in Praia Grande in 1975 and the same count gives 21.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 340,860 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: 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
Praia Grande through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Praia Grande in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brazil and its 356 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is São Paulo). Praia Grande is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Praia Grande covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Praia Grande, which is 352,067 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Brazil, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Praia Grande's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1623 Khurja India352,785
- 1624 Skopje North Macedonia352,624
- 1625 Madhubani India352,336
- 1626 Temuco Chile352,200
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
- 1628 Karimnagar India351,832
- 1629 Longueuil Canada351,819
- 1630 Bauru351,405
- 1631 Mwene-Ditu Democratic Republic of the Congo351,319
In Brazil, 2025
- 1585 Boa Vista360,361
- 1590 Piracicaba357,844
- 1601 Montes Claros355,651
- 1610 Anápolis354,576
- 1627 Praia Grande352,067
- 1630 Bauru351,405
- 1652 Francisco Morato346,105
- 1692 Franca337,878
- 1725 Rio Branco332,810
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 Praia Grande 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 Praia Grande 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