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Victoria, 
Canada
250,244 people lived in Victoria in 2025. It is the 2331st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Canada.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Victoria's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Victoria grew
For every 10 people in Victoria in 1975, there were 31.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 345,750 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Victoria through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Victoria in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Canada · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Canada and its 56 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Toronto). Victoria is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Victoria covered 112 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 87 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Canada
Its share of Canada
Of every 1,000 people in Canada in 2025, 6 lived in Victoria, which is 250,244 people.
How to read this: shrink Canada to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Victoria; 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
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
- 2331 Victoria250,244
- 2334 Rehovot Israel249,925
- 2335 Laredo United States249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay United States249,822
- 2337 Chakwal Pakistan249,801
In Canada, 2025
- 1644 Kitchener347,723
- 1842 Oshawa311,294
- 2105 Erin Woods275,476
- 2128 Saskatoon273,454
- 2331 Victoria250,244
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 Victoria 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 Victoria 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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