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San Miguel de Tucumán, 
Argentina
959,565 people lived in San Miguel de Tucumán in 2025. It is the 541st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Argentina.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area San Miguel de Tucumán governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How San Miguel de Tucumán grew
Count 10 people in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1975 and the same count gives 22.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
San Miguel de Tucumán through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in San Miguel de Tucumán in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Argentina · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 77 cities in Argentina in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Buenos Aires. The ringed dot in colour is San Miguel de Tucumán; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, San Miguel de Tucumán covered 170 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 55 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 93%, and its people are 2.3 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 Argentina
Its share of Argentina
Of every 100 people in Argentina in 2025, 2 lived in San Miguel de Tucumán, which is 959,565 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Argentina, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have San Miguel de Tucumán's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 537 Fushan China968,359
- 538 Zanzibar City Tanzania966,642
- 539 Dharwad India965,667
- 540 Lilongwe Malawi961,399
- 541 San Miguel de Tucumán959,565
- 542 Konya Türkiye959,484
- 543 Samara Russia955,599
- 544 Mwanza Tanzania954,104
- 545 Dagupan [Lingayen] Philippines953,092
In Argentina, 2025
- 21 Buenos Aires14,017,736
- 346 Cordoba1,460,491
- 445 Rosario1,151,717
- 495 Mendoza1,027,849
- 541 San Miguel de Tucumán959,565
- 720 La Plata742,952
- 879 Mar del Plata614,979
- 881 Salta613,956
- 1198 San Juan464,466
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 Miguel de Tucumán 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 Miguel de Tucumán 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