Vila Real · Portugal
Chaves population
17,535people · latest figure
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Chaves has a population of 17,535, making it the 145th largest place we list in Portugal. It is in Vila Real.
Chaves holds 0.17% of Portugal's 10,395,362 people. Lisbon, the largest place we list there, is 30 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 13,066, a rise of 34%.
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.
Chaves is in Vila Real, which has 17 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Sacavém | Lisbon | 17,718 |
| Covilhã | Castelo Branco | 17,610 |
| Ramada | Lisbon | 17,535 |
| Pombal | Leiria | 17,355 |
| Quelfes | Faro | 17,253 |
| Ílhavo | Aveiro | 17,236 |
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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.