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Provo, 
United States
488,429 people lived in Provo in 2025. It is the 1136th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 38th largest in the United States.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Provo grew
Count 10 people in Provo in 2000 and the same count gives 54.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 647,646 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: 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
Provo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Provo 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 Provo; 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, Provo covered 167 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 39 km² of it. That is 80 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 5.4 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Provo, which is 488,429 people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Provo; 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
- 1132 Al-Kut Iraq491,247
- 1133 Cusco Peru490,968
- 1134 Quebec Canada490,451
- 1135 Kakinada India488,958
- 1136 Provo488,429
- 1137 Portsmouth United Kingdom488,385
- 1138 Bazarati India487,581
- 1139 Dimapur India487,500
- 1140 Timerein Sudan486,586
In the United States, 2025
- 994 Tampa551,988
- 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
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 Provo 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 Provo 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