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Torreón, 
Mexico
1,227,850 people lived in Torreón in 2025. It is the 417th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Mexico.
Like every city on this site, Torreón 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 Torreón grew
Count 10 people in Torreón in 1975 and the same count gives 41.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Torreón through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Torreón in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Torreón 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, Torreón covered 208 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 64 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 4.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 9 lived in Torreón, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Torreón. 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
- 413 Amsterdam Netherlands1,235,985
- 414 Zhangzhou China1,232,911
- 415 Kota India1,232,364
- 416 Copenhagen Denmark1,229,370
- 417 Torreón1,227,850
- 418 Liverpool United Kingdom1,227,470
- 419 Vitória Brazil1,226,500
- 420 Maiduguri Nigeria1,225,505
- 421 Dehradun India1,219,198
In Mexico, 2025
- 255 Puebla1,947,971
- 320 Tijuana1,557,695
- 335 Toluca1,505,035
- 371 León1,367,521
- 417 Torreón1,227,850
- 425 Ciudad Juárez1,212,370
- 517 San Luis Potosí992,648
- 590 Querétaro880,361
- 611 Aguascalientes856,387
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 Torreón 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 Torreón 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