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Valparaíso, 
Chile
861,145 people lived in Valparaíso in 2025. It is the 607th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Chile, where it is the capital.
Like every city on this site, Valparaíso is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Valparaíso grew
For every 10 people in Valparaíso in 1975, there were 15.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 903,442 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Valparaíso through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Valparaíso in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Chile · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 36 cities in Chile in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Santiago. The ringed dot in colour is Valparaíso; 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, Valparaíso covered 155 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 37 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 55%.
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 Chile
Its share of Chile
Of every 100 people in Chile in 2025, 4 lived in Valparaíso, which is 861,145 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Chile; the coloured squares live in Valparaíso. 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
- 603 Katowice Poland865,777
- 604 Bata Equatorial Guinea863,383
- 605 Bokaro India862,593
- 606 Guntur India862,068
- 607 Valparaíso861,145
- 608 Aracaju Brazil859,845
- 609 Xinxiang China858,975
- 610 Kavar Iran857,280
- 611 Aguascalientes Mexico856,387
In Chile, 2025
- 58 Santiago6,726,045
- 607 Valparaíso861,145
- 1075 Concepción516,741
- 1174 La Serena473,325
- 1474 Antofagasta385,812
- 1626 Temuco352,200
- 1816 Iquique315,904
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 Valparaíso 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 Valparaíso 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