Santarém · Portugal
Rio Maior population
12,064people · latest figure
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Rio Maior has a population of 12,064, making it the 212th largest place we list in Portugal. It is in Santarém.
Rio Maior holds 0.12% of Portugal's 10,395,362 people. Lisbon, the largest place we list there, is 43 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 12,064, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Rio Maior is in Santarém, which has 60 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Mafra | Lisbon | 12,259 |
| Aldeia de Paio Pires | Setúbal | 12,179 |
| Tábua | Coimbra | 12,071 |
| Angra do Heroísmo | Azores | 12,045 |
| Barcarena | Lisbon | 11,968 |
| Gueifães | Porto | 11,964 |
All places in Portugal → · Santarém →
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.