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Tapachula, 
Mexico
307,334 people lived in Tapachula in 2025. It is the 1871st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd largest in Mexico.
Like every city on this site, Tapachula is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tapachula grew
Where Tapachula had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 360,936 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: 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
Tapachula through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tapachula in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mexico and its 186 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Mexico City). Tapachula 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, Tapachula covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 2 lived in Tapachula, which is 307,334 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Mexico, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tapachula's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1867 Jacobabad Pakistan308,137
- 1868 Tonghua China308,016
- 1869 Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela307,794
- 1870 Al-Shatrah Iraq307,652
- 1871 Tapachula307,334
- 1872 Jinshan China307,246
- 1873 Damoh India307,218
- 1874 Ughelli Nigeria307,005
- 1875 Juliaca Peru306,990
In Mexico, 2025
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón326,226
- 1769 Uruapan324,219
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria322,403
- 1846 Pachuca310,805
- 1871 Tapachula307,334
- 1913 Orizaba300,041
- 1942 Coatzacoalcos297,319
- 1960 Colima295,757
- 2065 Heroica Nogales281,580
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 Tapachula 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 Tapachula 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