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Spain: cities by population

Spain has a population of 47,850,793; Madrid is both its capital and its largest city. 6,716 places recorded across 19 autonomous communities.

Esta sección también existe en español: población de España por comunidad y localidad.

+17%

since 2000 (41,019,774)

-6%

projected by 2050 (44,928,558)

people per km²

UN estimates to 2026; the dashed line is the medium-variant projection to 2050, a forecast rather than a measurement. Source: World Population Prospects 2024.

Full UN series, 1950 to 2050

Year	Population
1950	28,077,049
1975	35,795,769
2000	41,019,774
2005	43,958,885
2010	46,840,471
2015	46,683,686
2020	47,679,489
2025	47,889,958
2026	47,850,793
2030 projected	47,610,520
2050 projected	44,928,558

Medium variant. Figures from 2026 onward are projections, not measurements.

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.

Largest cities

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Madrid	Madrid	3,255,944
2	Barcelona	Catalonia	1,686,208
3	Valencia	Valencia	824,340
4	Zaragoza	Aragon	686,986
5	Sevilla	Andalusia	686,741
6	Málaga	Andalusia	592,346
7	Murcia	Murcia	471,982
8	Palma	Balearic Islands	438,234
9	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Canary Islands	383,516
10	Alicante	Valencia	348,901
11	Bilbao	Basque Country	347,342
12	Córdoba	Andalusia	325,708
13	Valladolid	Castille and León	300,618
14	Vigo	Galicia	293,642
15	Gijón	Asturias	271,780
16	Gasteiz / Vitoria	Basque Country	257,407
17	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	Catalonia	257,038
18	A Coruña	Galicia	250,438
19	Elche	Valencia	234,765
20	Granada	Andalusia	233,532
21	Oviedo	Asturias	220,027
22	Terrassa	Catalonia	218,535
23	Badalona	Catalonia	217,741
24	Cartagena	Murcia	213,943
25	Jerez de la Frontera	Andalusia	212,879
26	Sabadell	Catalonia	211,734
27	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Canary Islands	211,359
28	Pamplona	Navarre	208,243
29	Móstoles	Madrid	207,095
30	Almería	Andalusia	196,851
31	Alcalá de Henares	Madrid	193,751
32	Fuenlabrada	Madrid	190,496
33	Leganés	Madrid	188,425
34	Getafe	Madrid	187,525
35	Donostia / San Sebastián	Basque Country	185,357
36	Burgos	Castille and León	176,418
37	Santander	Cantabria	173,635
38	Albacete	Castille-La Mancha	173,050
39	Alcorcón	Madrid	172,384
40	Castelló de la Plana	Valencia	171,857
41	Marbella	Andalusia	156,295
42	Logroño	La Rioja	151,164
43	La Laguna	Canary Islands	150,661
44	Badajoz	Extremadura	150,530
45	Salamanca	Castille and León	144,825
46	Huelva	Andalusia	144,258
47	Tarragona	Catalonia	141,542
48	Lleida	Catalonia	140,797
49	Mataró	Catalonia	126,988
50	León	Castille and León	124,772

Every region

Twenty years earlier: Spain in the 2005 World Gazetteer.