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Surrey, 
Canada
454,230 people lived in Surrey in 2025. It is the 1226th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Canada.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Surrey governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Surrey grew
Count 10 people in Surrey in 1975 and the same count gives 34 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 504,763 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Surrey through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Surrey in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Canada · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Canada and its 56 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Toronto). Surrey 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, Surrey covered 122 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 71 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 Canada
Its share of Canada
Of every 100 people in Canada in 2025, 1 lived in Surrey, which is 454,230 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Canada; the coloured squares live in Surrey. 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
- 1222 Vladivostok Russia455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad Pakistan454,903
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
- 1225 Sadiqabad Pakistan454,465
- 1226 Surrey454,230
- 1227 Nantes France453,523
- 1228 Chimoio Mozambique453,521
- 1229 Catania Italy453,376
- 1230 Shashamane Ethiopia452,945
In Canada, 2025
- 524 Edmonton981,522
- 796 Winnipeg679,037
- 900 Ottawa605,121
- 1134 Quebec490,451
- 1226 Surrey454,230
- 1292 Hamilton432,788
- 1579 London362,006
- 1629 Longueuil351,819
- 1644 Kitchener347,723
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 Surrey 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 Surrey 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 →
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