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Tampico, 
Mexico
603,035 people lived in Tampico in 2025. It is the 901st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in Mexico.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Tampico governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tampico grew
For every 10 people in Tampico in 1975, there were 15.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 626,291 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Tampico through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tampico in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 186 cities in Mexico in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Mexico City. The ringed dot in colour is Tampico; 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, Tampico covered 119 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 64%, and its people have grown by 53%.
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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 5 lived in Tampico, which is 603,035 people.
How to read this: shrink Mexico to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Tampico; 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
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom Egypt605,913
- 898 El Paso United States605,731
- 899 Anqiu China605,324
- 900 Ottawa Canada605,121
- 901 Tampico603,035
- 902 Pereira Colombia602,831
- 903 Changzhi China602,771
- 904 Tyumen Russia602,535
- 905 Khan Yunis Palestine601,421
In Mexico, 2025
- 811 Veracruz668,350
- 845 Cancún637,532
- 847 Morelia637,430
- 877 Reynosa615,168
- 901 Tampico603,035
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez580,878
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
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 Tampico 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 Tampico 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