Alajuela Province · Costa Rica
Alajuela population
47,494people · latest figure
Alajuela has a population of 47,494, making it the 3rd largest place we list in Costa Rica. It is in Alajuela Province.
Alajuela holds 0.92% of Costa Rica's 5,174,789 people. San José, the largest place we list there, is 7.1 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 47,494 for Alajuela 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 |
|---|---|---|
| San José | San José | 335,007 |
| Limón | Limón Province | 63,081 |
| Liberia | Guanacaste Province | 45,380 |
| Paraíso | Cartago Province | 39,702 |
| Puntarenas | Puntarenas Province | 35,650 |
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.