Galicia · Spain
Santiago de Compostela population
99,536people · latest figure
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Santiago de Compostela has a population of 99,536, making it the 65th largest place we list in Spain. It is in Galicia.
Santiago de Compostela holds 0.21% of Spain's 47,850,793 people. Madrid, the largest place we list there, is 33 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 91,139, a rise of 9%.
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.
Santiago de Compostela is in Galicia, which has 224 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Orihuela | Valencia | 101,321 |
| Barakaldo | Basque Country | 100,435 |
| Girona | Catalonia | 100,266 |
| Lugo | Galicia | 98,025 |
| Cáceres | Extremadura | 96,068 |
| Las Rozas de Madrid | Madrid | 95,550 |
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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.