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Tepic, 
Mexico
401,753 people lived in Tepic in 2025. It is the 1408th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Mexico.
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 Tepic grew
For every 10 people in Tepic in 1975, there were 59.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 433,413 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Tepic through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tepic in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tepic is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico City, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Tepic covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 5.9 times as many.
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, 3 lived in Tepic, which is 401,753 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 Tepic's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1404 Bharatpur India402,987
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh Egypt402,716
- 1406 Palakkad India401,965
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan401,839
- 1408 Tepic401,753
- 1409 Feni Bangladesh401,506
- 1410 Mallawi Egypt401,471
- 1411 Bhiwadi India401,290
- 1412 Sandakan Malaysia400,980
In Mexico, 2025
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
- 1152 Villahermosa481,525
- 1219 Irapuato456,628
- 1379 Mazatlán409,143
- 1408 Tepic401,753
- 1529 La Paz372,988
- 1534 Celaya372,139
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo331,195
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón326,226
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 Tepic 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 Tepic 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