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Sorocaba, 
Brazil
689,775 people lived in Sorocaba in 2025. It is the 782nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in Brazil.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Sorocaba's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sorocaba grew
For every 10 people in Sorocaba in 1975, there were 19.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 668,726 people in 2050.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Sorocaba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sorocaba in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 356 cities in Brazil in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being São Paulo. The ringed dot in colour is Sorocaba; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Sorocaba covered 146 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 43 km² of it. That is 63 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 93%.
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 Sorocaba, which is 689,775 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in Sorocaba. 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
- 778 Panvel India692,036
- 779 Chŏngjin North Korea690,409
- 780 Cheongju-si South Korea690,333
- 781 Cuito Angola689,795
- 782 Sorocaba689,775
- 783 Zurich Switzerland689,657
- 784 Zhoukou China689,599
- 785 Fresno United States685,330
- 786 Beni Suef Egypt684,414
In Brazil, 2025
- 559 Teresina929,795
- 608 Aracaju859,845
- 631 Campo Grande833,403
- 663 Cuiabá798,772
- 782 Sorocaba689,775
- 790 Florianópolis682,065
- 878 Ribeirao Preto615,090
- 883 Uberlândia613,434
- 910 Londrina598,731
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 Sorocaba 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 Sorocaba 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