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Saskatoon, 
Canada
273,454 people lived in Saskatoon in 2025. It is the 2128th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Canada.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Saskatoon grew
Where Saskatoon had 10 people in 1985, it had 24.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 302,843 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Saskatoon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Saskatoon in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Canada · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Saskatoon is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Canada in 2025, 56 in all, led by Toronto, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Saskatoon covered 102 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 81 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Canada
Its share of Canada
Of every 1,000 people in Canada in 2025, 7 lived in Saskatoon, which is 273,454 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Canada; the coloured squares live in Saskatoon. 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
- 2121 Magboro Nigeria273,818
- 2122 Nacala Mozambique273,732
- 2123 Yibin China273,660
- 2124 Asaka Uzbekistan273,582
- 2128 Saskatoon273,454
- 2130 Sanmenxia China272,970
- 2132 Cabanatuan Philippines272,890
- 2133 Nzérékoré Guinea272,866
- 2134 Dalla India272,778
In Canada, 2025
- 1629 Longueuil351,819
- 1644 Kitchener347,723
- 1842 Oshawa311,294
- 2105 Erin Woods275,476
- 2128 Saskatoon273,454
- 2331 Victoria250,244
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 Saskatoon 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 Saskatoon 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