Andalusia · Spain
Nerja population
21,811people · latest figure
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Nerja has a population of 21,811, making it the 360th largest place we list in Spain. It is in Andalusia.
Nerja holds under a tenth of one per cent of Spain's 47,850,793 people. Madrid, the largest place we list there, is 149 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 18,536, a rise of 18%.
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.
Nerja is in Andalusia, which has 705 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Coín | Andalusia | 21,866 |
| Esparreguera | Catalonia | 21,855 |
| Sant Antoni de Portmany | Balearic Islands | 21,852 |
| Torrelodones | Madrid | 21,781 |
| Laguna de Duero | Castille and León | 21,762 |
| Carcaixent | Valencia | 21,735 |
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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.