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Santiago del Estero, 
Argentina
393,257 people lived in Santiago del Estero in 2025. It is the 1447th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Argentina.
Like every city on this site, Santiago del Estero 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 Santiago del Estero grew
For every 10 people in Santiago del Estero in 1975, there were 41.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 423,793 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Santiago del Estero through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Santiago del Estero 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). Santiago del Estero 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 del Estero covered 99 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 km² of it. That is 79 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 Argentina
Its share of Argentina
Of every 1,000 people in Argentina in 2025, 9 lived in Santiago del Estero, which is 393,257 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Argentina; the coloured squares live in Santiago del Estero. 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
- 1443 As Samawah Iraq393,865
- 1444 Ezhou China393,658
- 1445 Morena India393,553
- 1446 Kadapa India393,513
- 1447 Santiago del Estero393,257
- 1448 Gonder Ethiopia392,767
- 1449 Jiyuan China392,568
- 1450 Motihari India392,303
- 1451 Corrientes392,082
In Argentina, 2025
- 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
- 2113 San Salvador de Jujuy274,625
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Santiago del Estero 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 del Estero 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