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Valencia, 
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1,435,894 people lived in Valencia in 2025. It is the 353rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Venezuela.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Valencia governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Valencia grew
Where Valencia had 10 people in 1975, it had 45.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Valencia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Valencia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Venezuela · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Valencia is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Venezuela in 2025, 69 in all, led by Caracas, 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, Valencia covered 298 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 78 km² of it. That is 54 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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 Venezuela
Its share of Venezuela
Of every 100 people in Venezuela in 2025, 5 lived in Valencia, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Venezuela; the coloured squares live in Valencia. 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
- 349 Jilin City China1,448,955
- 350 Angeles Philippines1,445,721
- 351 Gwangju South Korea1,441,495
- 352 Dushanbe Tajikistan1,440,787
- 353 Valencia1,435,894
- 354 Medina Saudi Arabia1,432,287
- 355 Aba Nigeria1,428,069
- 356 Al Zaqaziq Egypt1,416,734
- 357 Asyut Egypt1,406,963
In Venezuela, 2025
- 195 Caracas2,576,666
- 243 Maracaibo2,030,633
- 353 Valencia1,435,894
- 621 Maracay845,329
- 651 Barquisimeto812,384
- 805 Barcelona674,757
- 1033 Ciudad Guayana535,164
- 1231 Maturin452,835
- 1416 Guarenas399,477
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 Valencia 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 Valencia 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