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Villavicencio, 
Colombia
383,028 people lived in Villavicencio in 2025. It is the 1484th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Colombia.
Like every city on this site, Villavicencio 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 Villavicencio grew
Count 10 people in Villavicencio in 1975 and the same count gives 39.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 595,115 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Villavicencio through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Villavicencio in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Colombia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 81 cities in Colombia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Bogotá. The ringed dot in colour is Villavicencio; 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, Villavicencio covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 3.9 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Colombia
Its share of Colombia
Of every 1,000 people in Colombia in 2025, 7 lived in Villavicencio, which is 383,028 people.
How to read this: shrink Colombia to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Villavicencio; 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
- 1480 Haicheng China383,983
- 1481 Caxias do Sul Brazil383,774
- 1482 Tongling China383,739
- 1483 Eluru India383,068
- 1484 Villavicencio383,028
- 1485 Rewa India383,019
- 1486 Badaun India382,686
- 1487 Pohang-si South Korea382,368
- 1488 Guangyuan China381,738
In Colombia, 2025
- 1122 Ibagué494,316
- 1259 Santa Marta442,455
- 1266 Manizales440,407
- 1272 Buenaventura438,063
- 1484 Villavicencio383,028
- 1537 Pasto371,637
- 1685 Montería339,380
- 1716 Neiva333,744
- 1802 Armenia319,234
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 Villavicencio 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 Villavicencio 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