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Taubaté, 
Brazil
310,170 people lived in Taubaté in 2025. It is the 1857th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th largest in Brazil.
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 Taubaté grew
Where Taubaté had 10 people in 1975, it had 27.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 309,358 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Taubaté through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Taubaté in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brazil and its 356 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is São Paulo). Taubaté 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, Taubaté covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 1 lived in Taubaté, which is 310,170 people.
How to read this: shrink Brazil to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Taubaté; 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
- 1853 Emeishan China310,503
- 1854 Kanggye North Korea310,432
- 1855 Yuanlin City Taiwan310,380
- 1856 Beed India310,278
- 1857 Taubaté310,170
- 1858 Huairou China309,856
- 1859 Kindu Democratic Republic of the Congo309,727
- 1860 Sandwip Bangladesh309,439
- 1861 Moshi Tanzania309,202
In Brazil, 2025
- 1734 Gravataí330,969
- 1766 Canoas325,022
- 1834 Uberaba312,745
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes310,590
- 1857 Taubaté310,170
- 1916 Caruaru299,805
- 2495 Blumenau234,982
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Taubaté 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 Taubaté 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