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Wuppertal, 
Germany
662,663 people lived in Wuppertal in 2025. It is the 820th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 11th largest in Germany.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Wuppertal 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 Wuppertal grew
Wuppertal had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 621,225 people in 2050.
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
Wuppertal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Wuppertal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Germany · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Wuppertal is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Germany in 2025, 100 in all, led by Berlin, 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, Wuppertal covered 222 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 46 km² of it. That is 70 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 75%, 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 Germany
Its share of Germany
Of every 1,000 people in Germany in 2025, 8 lived in Wuppertal, which is 662,663 people.
How to read this: shrink Germany to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Wuppertal; 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
- 816 Anand India664,789
- 817 St. Louis United States663,392
- 818 Blida Algeria663,070
- 819 Leiyang China662,696
- 820 Wuppertal662,663
- 821 Kannur India662,128
- 822 Jhansi India662,059
- 823 Bogura Bangladesh661,378
- 824 Gqeberha South Africa661,220
In Germany, 2025
- 573 Frankfurt900,483
- 576 Stuttgart899,103
- 708 Bonn756,044
- 717 Dortmund748,106
- 820 Wuppertal662,663
- 837 Nuremberg644,169
- 887 Hanover611,288
- 989 Dresden554,612
- 1017 Leipzig542,313
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 Wuppertal 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 Wuppertal 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