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Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 
Mexico
580,878 people lived in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 2025. It is the 947th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 26th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tuxtla Gutiérrez grew
For every 10 people in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1980, there were 67 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 708,365 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Tuxtla Gutiérrez through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tuxtla Gutiérrez 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, Tuxtla Gutiérrez covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 6.7 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, 4 lived in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, which is 580,878 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 Tuxtla Gutiérrez's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 943 Rajamahendravaram India582,520
- 944 Ad Da'ein Sudan581,730
- 945 Nimule South Sudan581,444
- 946 Jaunpur India580,893
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez580,878
- 948 Rasht Iran579,481
- 949 Damanhur Egypt579,215
- 950 Jashore Bangladesh578,026
- 951 Beihai China577,338
In Mexico, 2025
- 845 Cancún637,532
- 847 Morelia637,430
- 877 Reynosa615,168
- 901 Tampico603,035
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez580,878
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
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 Tuxtla Gutiérrez are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Tuxtla Gutiérrez 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