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Santa Fe, 
Argentina
366,960 people lived in Santa Fe in 2025. It is the 1560th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Argentina.
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 Santa Fe'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 Santa Fe grew
Where Santa Fe had 10 people in 1975, it had 13.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 381,967 people in 2050.
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
Santa Fe through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe; 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, Santa Fe covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 62 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 43%, and its people have grown by 38%.
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 1,000 people in Argentina in 2025, 8 lived in Santa Fe, which is 366,960 people.
How to read this: shrink Argentina to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Santa Fe; 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
- 1556 Gboko Nigeria367,407
- 1557 Riverside United States367,336
- 1558 Granada Spain367,226
- 1559 Gonaïves Haiti367,158
- 1560 Santa Fe366,960
- 1561 Ratlam India366,958
- 1562 Tong'an China366,871
- 1563 Silvassa India366,589
- 1564 Tver Russia366,542
In Argentina, 2025
- 1391 Resistencia406,337
- 1447 Santiago del Estero393,257
- 1451 Corrientes392,082
- 1513 Posadas375,741
- 1560 Santa Fe366,960
- 2113 San Salvador de Jujuy274,625
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 Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe 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