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Sao Jose dos Campos, 
Brazil
536,073 people lived in Sao Jose dos Campos in 2025. It is the 1031st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Brazil.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sao Jose dos Campos grew
Where Sao Jose dos Campos had 10 people in 1975, it had 44.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 533,317 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Sao Jose dos Campos through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sao Jose dos Campos in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brazil and its 356 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is São Paulo). Sao Jose dos Campos 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, Sao Jose dos Campos covered 100 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 3 lived in Sao Jose dos Campos, which is 536,073 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Sao Jose dos Campos. 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
- 1027 Shaoyang China538,432
- 1028 Fengrun China538,206
- 1029 Xianyang China537,601
- 1030 Buram Sudan537,169
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos536,073
- 1032 Bettiah India535,979
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela535,164
- 1034 Ndola Zambia535,108
- 1035 Bengbu China535,096
In Brazil, 2025
- 878 Ribeirao Preto615,090
- 883 Uberlândia613,434
- 910 Londrina598,731
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás570,302
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos536,073
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1049 Feira de Santana529,185
- 1068 Juiz de Fora518,218
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 Sao Jose dos Campos 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 Sao Jose dos Campos 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