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Villahermosa, 
Mexico
481,525 people lived in Villahermosa in 2025. It is the 1152nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Mexico.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Villahermosa 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 Villahermosa grew
For every 10 people in Villahermosa in 1985, there were 61.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 570,309 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Villahermosa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Villahermosa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 186 cities in Mexico in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Mexico City. The ringed dot in colour is Villahermosa; 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, Villahermosa covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 6.1 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 4 lived in Villahermosa, which is 481,525 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Villahermosa. 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
- 1148 Yar Hussain Pakistan483,239
- 1149 Cuenca Ecuador482,272
- 1150 Tahta Egypt482,194
- 1151 At Ta'if Saudi Arabia481,818
- 1152 Villahermosa481,525
- 1153 Rizhao China481,315
- 1154 Siuri India480,595
- 1155 Huai'an District China480,263
- 1156 Kediri Indonesia480,038
In Mexico, 2025
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
- 1152 Villahermosa481,525
- 1219 Irapuato456,628
- 1379 Mazatlán409,143
- 1408 Tepic401,753
- 1529 La Paz372,988
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 Villahermosa are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Villahermosa 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