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The largest of Cantabria's 64 recorded places, ranked by population — 491,350 people across the region's towns and cities.
The essentials
Santander is the largest place we record in Cantabria, with 173,635 residents. The three largest together hold 53% of the 491,350 people counted across the region's recorded towns and cities. That total sums listed places rather than measuring the region itself, so treat it as coverage, never as an official population.
All 64 places, ranked
Las 64 ciudades y municipios más poblados de Cantabria, ordenados por población.
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.