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490,451 people lived in Quebec in 2025. It is the 1134th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Canada.
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 Quebec's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Quebec grew
Count 10 people in Quebec in 1975 and the same count gives 29.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 517,247 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Quebec through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Quebec in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Canada · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Canada and its 56 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Toronto). Quebec 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, Quebec covered 202 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 45 km² of it. That is 92 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Canada
Its share of Canada
Of every 100 people in Canada in 2025, 1 lived in Quebec, which is 490,451 people.
How to read this: shrink Canada to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Quebec; 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
- 1130 Bulawayo Zimbabwe492,771
- 1131 Ife Nigeria492,000
- 1132 Al-Kut Iraq491,247
- 1133 Cusco Peru490,968
- 1134 Quebec490,451
- 1135 Kakinada India488,958
- 1136 Provo United States488,429
- 1137 Portsmouth United Kingdom488,385
- 1138 Bazarati India487,581
In Canada, 2025
- 431 Calgary1,197,110
- 524 Edmonton981,522
- 796 Winnipeg679,037
- 900 Ottawa605,121
- 1134 Quebec490,451
- 1226 Surrey454,230
- 1292 Hamilton432,788
- 1579 London362,006
- 1629 Longueuil351,819
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 Quebec 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 Quebec 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 →
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