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Tampa, 
United States
551,988 people lived in Tampa in 2025. It is the 994th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in the United States.
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 Tampa's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tampa grew
For every 10 people in Tampa in 2000, there were 95.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 757,104 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Tampa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tampa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the United States and its 348 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New York City). Tampa 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, Tampa covered 260 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 66 km² of it. That is 120 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 10.3 times its size, and its people are 9.6 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 2 lived in Tampa, which is 551,988 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Tampa. 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
- 990 Tabuk Saudi Arabia553,389
- 991 Rampur India553,229
- 992 M'bour Senegal553,170
- 993 Yaroslavl Russia553,086
- 994 Tampa551,988
- 995 Panjin China551,709
- 996 Azamgarh India551,621
- 997 Luhe China551,106
- 998 Boumerdes Algeria550,700
In the United States, 2025
- 817 St. Louis663,392
- 873 West Palm Beach617,035
- 898 El Paso605,731
- 965 Norfolk567,473
- 994 Tampa551,988
- 1015 Salt Lake City542,449
- 1022 Honolulu540,683
- 1098 Bakersfield503,676
- 1136 Provo488,429
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 Tampa are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Tampa 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