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Toulouse, 
France
642,224 people lived in Toulouse in 2025. It is the 839th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in France.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Toulouse governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Toulouse grew
For every 10 people in Toulouse in 1975, there were 24.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 728,902 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Toulouse through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Toulouse in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
France · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Toulouse is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of France in 2025, 71 in all, led by Paris, 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, Toulouse covered 188 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 50 km² of it. That is 77 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 France
Its share of France
Of every 1,000 people in France in 2025, 10 lived in Toulouse, which is 642,224 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in France; the coloured squares live in Toulouse. 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
- 835 Nottingham United Kingdom649,610
- 836 Amarah Iraq645,612
- 837 Nuremberg Germany644,169
- 838 Dhule India643,777
- 839 Toulouse642,224
- 840 Jalpaiguri India642,158
- 841 Bauchi Nigeria642,082
- 842 Rangpur Bangladesh641,327
- 843 Kumamoto Japan641,185
In France, 2025
- 36 Paris9,381,921
- 429 Lyon1,202,985
- 578 Lille893,282
- 581 Marseille891,463
- 839 Toulouse642,224
- 856 Bordeaux631,551
- 1227 Nantes453,523
- 1345 Nice418,294
- 1424 Strasbourg398,175
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 Toulouse 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 Toulouse 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