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Resistencia, 
Argentina
406,337 people lived in Resistencia in 2025. It is the 1391st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Argentina.
Like every city on this site, Resistencia is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Resistencia grew
Where Resistencia had 10 people in 1975, it had 27 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 425,333 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
Resistencia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Resistencia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Argentina · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Argentina and its 77 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Buenos Aires). Resistencia 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, Resistencia covered 87 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 64 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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 Argentina
Its share of Argentina
Of every 1,000 people in Argentina in 2025, 9 lived in Resistencia, which is 406,337 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Argentina; the coloured squares live in Resistencia. 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
- 1387 Hat Yai Thailand407,059
- 1388 Jalna India406,973
- 1389 Dhamar Yemen406,929
- 1390 Bhind India406,712
- 1391 Resistencia406,337
- 1392 Abakaliki Nigeria406,105
- 1393 Kumbakonam India405,885
- 1394 Daqing China405,480
- 1395 Jiashan China405,454
In Argentina, 2025
- 720 La Plata742,952
- 879 Mar del Plata614,979
- 881 Salta613,956
- 1198 San Juan464,466
- 1391 Resistencia406,337
- 1447 Santiago del Estero393,257
- 1451 Corrientes392,082
- 1513 Posadas375,741
- 1560 Santa Fe366,960
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 Resistencia 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 Resistencia 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