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Santiago de los Caballeros, 
Dominican Republic
681,087 people lived in Santiago de los Caballeros in 2025. It is the 792nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in the Dominican Republic.
Like every city on this site, Santiago de los Caballeros is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Santiago de los Caballeros grew
For every 10 people in Santiago de los Caballeros in 1975, there were 21.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 652,138 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
Santiago de los Caballeros through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Santiago de los Caballeros in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Dominican Republic · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the Dominican Republic and its 17 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Santo Domingo). Santiago de los Caballeros 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, Santiago de los Caballeros covered 126 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 the Dominican Republic
Its share of the Dominican Republic
Of every 100 people in the Dominican Republic in 2025, 6 lived in Santiago de los Caballeros, which is 681,087 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in the Dominican Republic, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Santiago de los Caballeros's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 788 Akola India683,391
- 789 Vapi India682,459
- 790 Florianópolis Brazil682,065
- 791 Longgang China681,306
- 792 Santiago de los Caballeros681,087
- 793 San Juan Puerto Rico681,030
- 794 Youyi China680,993
- 795 Jamnagar India680,589
- 796 Winnipeg Canada679,037
In the Dominican Republic, 2025
- 92 Santo Domingo4,600,064
- 792 Santiago de los Caballeros681,087
- 2324 La Romana250,479
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 Santiago de los Caballeros 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 Santiago de los Caballeros 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