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Winnipeg, 
Canada
679,037 people lived in Winnipeg in 2025. It is the 796th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Canada.
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 Winnipeg grew
For every 10 people in Winnipeg in 1975, there were 18.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 710,740 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
Winnipeg through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Winnipeg in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Canada · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Winnipeg is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Canada in 2025, 56 in all, led by Toronto, 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, Winnipeg covered 225 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 51 km² of it. That is 74 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 87%, and its people have grown by 82%.
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 100 people in Canada in 2025, 2 lived in Winnipeg, which is 679,037 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Canada; the coloured squares live in Winnipeg. 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
- 792 Santiago de los Caballeros Dominican Republic681,087
- 793 San Juan Puerto Rico681,030
- 794 Youyi China680,993
- 795 Jamnagar India680,589
- 796 Winnipeg679,037
- 797 Garoua Cameroon678,769
- 798 Kitwe Zambia678,749
- 799 Jingzhou China678,632
- 800 Ankang China678,483
In Canada, 2025
- 187 Montreal2,668,723
- 286 Vancouver1,707,865
- 431 Calgary1,197,110
- 524 Edmonton981,522
- 796 Winnipeg679,037
- 900 Ottawa605,121
- 1134 Quebec490,451
- 1226 Surrey454,230
- 1292 Hamilton432,788
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 Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg 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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