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Valletta, 
Malta
373,474 people lived in Valletta in 2025. It is the 1526th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Malta, where it is the capital.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Valletta grew
Count 10 people in Valletta in 1975 and the same count gives 16.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 365,611 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Valletta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Valletta in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Malta · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 1 city in Malta in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there. The ringed dot in colour is Valletta; 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, Valletta covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 57 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 80%, and its people have grown by 62%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Malta
Its share of Malta
Of every 100 people in Malta in 2025, 68 lived in Valletta, which is 373,474 people.
How to read this: shrink Malta to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Valletta; 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
- 1522 Hrodna Belarus374,464
- 1523 Debandi India374,423
- 1524 Pakpattan Pakistan374,389
- 1525 Wonsan North Korea373,596
- 1526 Valletta373,474
- 1527 Kuantan Malaysia373,353
- 1528 Junagadh India373,265
- 1529 La Paz Mexico372,988
- 1530 Khagaria India372,707
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 Valletta 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 Valletta 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 →
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