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Sucre, 
Bolivia
286,383 people lived in Sucre in 2025. It is the 2030th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Bolivia, where it is the capital.
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 Sucre grew
Where Sucre had 10 people in 1975, it had 41.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 330,769 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Sucre through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sucre in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bolivia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sucre is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Bolivia in 2025, 12 in all, led by La Paz, 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, Sucre covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.0 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 4.2 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 Bolivia
Its share of Bolivia
Of every 100 people in Bolivia in 2025, 2 lived in Sucre, which is 286,383 people.
How to read this: shrink Bolivia to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Sucre; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2026 Manta Ecuador287,756
- 2027 Vinh Long Vietnam287,685
- 2028 Kunduz Afghanistan287,295
- 2029 Maseru Lesotho286,843
- 2030 Sucre286,383
- 2032 Ashdod Israel286,310
- 2033 Jianpur India286,148
- 2034 Osmaniye Türkiye286,108
- 2036 Gondia India285,870
In Bolivia, 2025
- 244 La Paz2,024,413
- 249 Santa Cruz de la Sierra1,980,432
- 377 Cochabamba1,346,672
- 1643 Oruro347,830
- 2030 Sucre286,383
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 Sucre 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 Sucre 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