Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Ecuador

Count 10 people in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas in 1985 and the same count gives 48.5 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 406,089 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.

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.

How to read this: Ecuador and its 32 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Guayaquil). Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 8.1 times its size, and its people are 4.8 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 Ecuador in 2025, 2 lived in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, which is 356,829 people.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Ecuador; the coloured squares live in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 1590 Piracicaba Brazil357,844
2. 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
3. 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain357,753
4. 1593 Chiniot Pakistan357,181
5. 1594 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas356,829
6. 1595 Aizawl India356,620
7. 1596 Vladikavkaz Russia356,422
8. 1597 Memphis United States356,215
9. 1598 Tula Russia356,025

In Ecuador, 2025

1. 157 Guayaquil3,157,825
2. 197 Quito2,534,914
3. 1149 Cuenca482,272
4. 1594 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas356,829
5. 2026 Manta287,756
6. 2110 Ambato274,672
7. 2243 Salinas [Santa Elena]260,161

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.

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The figures for Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas 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