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Timișoara, 
Romania
319,240 people lived in Timișoara in 2025. It is the 1801st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Romania.
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 Timișoara grew
For every 10 people in Timișoara in 1975, there were 12.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 301,605 people in 2050.
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
Timișoara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Timișoara in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Romania · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Romania and its 29 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Bucharest). Timișoara 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, Timișoara covered 59 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 75%, and its people have grown by 26%.
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 Romania
Its share of Romania
Of every 100 people in Romania in 2025, 2 lived in Timișoara, which is 319,240 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Romania; the coloured squares live in Timișoara. 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
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira] Venezuela320,109
- 1798 Balurghat India319,934
- 1799 Deir el-Balah Palestine319,915
- 1800 Raichur India319,647
- 1801 Timișoara319,240
- 1802 Armenia Colombia319,234
- 1803 Zhangqiu China319,153
- 1804 Sosnowiec Poland318,955
- 1805 Qili China318,490
In Romania, 2025
- 262 Bucharest1,909,536
- 1801 Timișoara319,240
- 1848 Cluj-Napoca310,650
- 2104 Iași275,840
- 2169 Constanța268,757
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 Timișoara 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 Timișoara 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 →
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