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Veracruz, 
Mexico
668,350 people lived in Veracruz in 2025. It is the 811th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Veracruz grew
For every 10 people in Veracruz in 1975, there were 25.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 695,474 people in 2050.
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
Veracruz through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Veracruz in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Veracruz 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, Veracruz covered 124 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 53 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 87%, and its people are 2.6 times as many.
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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 5 lived in Veracruz, which is 668,350 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 Veracruz's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 807 Calabar Nigeria673,427
- 808 Jiamusi China673,406
- 809 Likasi Democratic Republic of the Congo673,034
- 810 Kudus Indonesia671,940
- 811 Veracruz668,350
- 812 Palermo Italy667,442
- 813 Maradi Niger666,205
- 814 Changwon South Korea665,772
- 815 Fushun China665,286
In Mexico, 2025
- 727 Mexicali737,963
- 728 Saltillo737,662
- 765 Culiacán701,609
- 768 Acapulco699,888
- 811 Veracruz668,350
- 845 Cancún637,532
- 847 Morelia637,430
- 877 Reynosa615,168
- 901 Tampico603,035
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Veracruz 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 Veracruz 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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