Castille and León · Spain
Ponferrada population
68,736people · latest figure
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Ponferrada has a population of 68,736, making it the 104th largest place we list in Spain. It is in Castille and León.
Ponferrada holds 0.14% of Spain's 47,850,793 people. Madrid, the largest place we list there, is 47 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 61,134, a rise of 12%.
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.
Ponferrada is in Castille and León, which has 1,946 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Fuengirola | Andalusia | 71,482 |
| Benidorm | Valencia | 70,450 |
| Alcalá de Guadaira | Andalusia | 70,155 |
| Rivas-Vaciamadrid | Madrid | 68,405 |
| Majadahonda | Madrid | 68,110 |
| Sanlúcar de Barrameda | Andalusia | 68,037 |
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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.