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Punto Fijo, 
Venezuela
255,662 people lived in Punto Fijo in 2025. It is the 2283rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Venezuela.
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 Punto Fijo'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 Punto Fijo grew
Count 10 people in Punto Fijo in 1975 and the same count gives 40.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 309,665 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Punto Fijo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Punto Fijo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Punto Fijo 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, Punto Fijo covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 88 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.9 times its size, and its people are 4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 1,000 people in Venezuela in 2025, 9 lived in Punto Fijo, which is 255,662 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Venezuela; the coloured squares live in Punto Fijo. 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
- 2279 Kilwa Democratic Republic of the Congo256,165
- 2280 Abat Nigeria256,126
- 2281 Centurion South Africa255,900
- 2282 Wakayama Japan255,782
- 2283 Punto Fijo255,662
- 2288 Skikda Algeria255,379
- 2289 Arkhangelsk Russia254,797
- 2290 Shakar Garh Pakistan254,655
- 2293 Gaborone Botswana254,517
In Venezuela, 2025
- 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 Punto Fijo 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 Punto Fijo 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