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Querétaro, 
Mexico
880,361 people lived in Querétaro in 2025. It is the 590th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Mexico.
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 Querétaro'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 Querétaro grew
For every 10 people in Querétaro in 1985, there were 36.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 954,616 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. 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
Querétaro through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Querétaro in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mexico and its 186 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Mexico City). Querétaro 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, Querétaro covered 162 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 53 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 3.4 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 7 lived in Querétaro, which is 880,361 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Querétaro. 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
- 586 Bikaner India882,222
- 587 Huadu China882,089
- 588 Ulsan South Korea881,858
- 589 Ufa Russia880,583
- 590 Querétaro880,361
- 591 Voronezh Russia879,892
- 592 Adelaide Australia879,249
- 593 Sembawang Singapore878,551
- 594 Firozabad India878,282
In Mexico, 2025
- 371 León1,367,521
- 417 Torreón1,227,850
- 425 Ciudad Juárez1,212,370
- 517 San Luis Potosí992,648
- 590 Querétaro880,361
- 611 Aguascalientes856,387
- 618 Mérida847,166
- 625 Cuernavaca839,485
- 691 Chihuahua771,297
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 Querétaro 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 Querétaro 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