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Seville, 
Spain
699,504 people lived in Seville in 2025. It is the 769th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Spain.
Like every city on this site, Seville 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 Seville grew
Where Seville had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 642,550 people in 2050.
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
Seville through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Seville in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Spain · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Seville is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Spain in 2025, 84 in all, led by Madrid, 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, Seville covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 68%, and its people have grown by 22%.
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 Spain
Its share of Spain
Of every 100 people in Spain in 2025, 1 lived in Seville, which is 699,504 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Spain; the coloured squares live in Seville. 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
- 765 Culiacán Mexico701,609
- 766 Akure Nigeria700,747
- 767 Deyang China700,386
- 768 Acapulco Mexico699,888
- 769 Seville699,504
- 770 Krakow Poland699,015
- 771 Urmia Iran698,050
- 772 Donghe China696,169
- 773 Hsinchu Taiwan695,677
In Spain, 2025
- 72 Madrid5,583,601
- 114 Barcelona3,982,704
- 366 Valencia1,390,045
- 721 Bilbao741,795
- 769 Seville699,504
- 934 Zaragoza585,533
- 1057 Málaga521,854
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca473,499
- 1428 Alicante397,948
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 Seville 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 Seville 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