Linares has a population of 69,535, making it the 46th largest place we list in Chile. It is in Maule Region.
Linares holds 0.35% of Chile's 19,945,850 people. Santiago, the largest place we list there, is 70 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 69,535 for Linares in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Ovalle | Coquimbo Region | 77,138 |
| Padre Las Casas | Araucania | 72,892 |
| Paine | Santiago Metropolitan | 72,759 |
| Quillota | Valparaiso | 67,779 |
| Buin | Santiago Metropolitan | 63,419 |
| Padre Hurtado | Santiago Metropolitan | 63,250 |
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.