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San Cristobal, 
Venezuela
361,969 people lived in San Cristobal in 2025. It is the 1580th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Venezuela.
Like every city on this site, San Cristobal 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 San Cristobal grew
Where San Cristobal had 10 people in 1975, it had 19.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 383,495 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
San Cristobal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in San Cristobal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: San Cristobal 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, San Cristobal covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 1 lived in San Cristobal, which is 361,969 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Venezuela, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have San Cristobal's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1576 Jakdo-dong North Korea363,071
- 1577 Linhai China362,290
- 1578 Qidong China362,192
- 1579 London Canada362,006
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
- 1581 Hulan China361,540
- 1582 Vitsebsk Belarus361,484
- 1583 Dilla Ethiopia360,925
- 1584 Daloa Côte d’Ivoire360,630
In Venezuela, 2025
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
- 1498 Cumana379,333
- 1580 San Cristobal361,969
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira]320,109
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar307,794
- 1965 Barinas295,298
- 2048 Cabimas283,656
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 San Cristobal 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 San Cristobal 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