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Wrocław, 
Poland
508,528 people lived in Wrocław in 2025. It is the 1089th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Poland.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Wrocław 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 Wrocław grew
Wrocław had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 476,556 people in 2050.
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
Wrocław through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wrocław in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Poland · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Wrocław is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Poland in 2025, 60 in all, led by Warsaw, 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, Wrocław covered 114 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 79%, and its people are about as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Poland
Its share of Poland
Of every 100 people in Poland in 2025, 1 lived in Wrocław, which is 508,528 people.
How to read this: shrink Poland to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Wrocław; 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
- 1085 Tianshui China511,831
- 1086 Roorkee India511,291
- 1087 Jinhe China510,984
- 1088 Hegang China509,748
- 1089 Wrocław508,528
- 1090 Fuxin China508,131
- 1091 Shunyi China507,591
- 1092 Malatya Türkiye506,854
- 1093 Kashgar China506,476
In Poland, 2025
- 267 Warsaw1,882,756
- 603 Katowice865,777
- 770 Krakow699,015
- 942 Lodz582,659
- 1089 Wrocław508,528
- 1121 Poznan494,839
- 1478 Gdansk384,985
- 1804 Sosnowiec318,955
- 1911 Szczecin300,314
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 Wrocław 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 Wrocław 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