Basque Country · Spain
Portugalete population
45,826people · latest figure
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Portugalete has a population of 45,826, making it the 156th largest place we list in Spain. It is in Basque Country.
Portugalete holds under a tenth of one per cent of Spain's 47,850,793 people. Madrid, the largest place we list there, is 71 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 50,964, a fall of 10%.
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.
Portugalete is in Basque Country, which has 130 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Mislata | Valencia | 46,131 |
| Gavà | Catalonia | 45,994 |
| Mairena del Aljarafe | Andalusia | 45,890 |
| Antequera | Andalusia | 45,168 |
| Alzira | Valencia | 44,393 |
| Mieres | Asturias | 44,070 |
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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.