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Uruapan, 
Mexico
324,219 people lived in Uruapan in 2025. It is the 1769th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th 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 Uruapan grew
Count 10 people in Uruapan in 1975 and the same count gives 38.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 364,749 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Uruapan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Uruapan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 186 cities in Mexico in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Mexico City. The ringed dot in colour is Uruapan; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Uruapan covered 55 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 46 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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, 2 lived in Uruapan, which is 324,219 people.
How to read this: shrink Mexico to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Uruapan; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1765 Jiaonan China325,383
- 1766 Canoas Brazil325,022
- 1767 Sumedang Indonesia324,936
- 1768 Kaiping China324,576
- 1769 Uruapan324,219
- 1770 Pandeglang Indonesia324,139
- 1771 Khorramabad Iran324,110
- 1772 Montpellier France324,059
- 1773 Lieshan China323,702
In Mexico, 2025
- 1529 La Paz372,988
- 1534 Celaya372,139
- 1733 Nuevo Laredo331,195
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón326,226
- 1769 Uruapan324,219
- 1781 Ciudad Victoria322,403
- 1846 Pachuca310,805
- 1871 Tapachula307,334
- 1913 Orizaba300,041
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 Uruapan 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 Uruapan 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