Cartago Province · Costa Rica
Cartago population
26,594people · latest figure
Cartago has a population of 26,594, making it the 18th largest place we list in Costa Rica. It is in Cartago Province.
Cartago holds 0.51% of Costa Rica's 5,174,789 people. San José, the largest place we list there, is 13 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 26,594, almost unchanged.
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.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| San Pedro | San José | 27,477 |
| San Rafael Abajo | San José | 27,419 |
| Quesada | Alajuela Province | 27,310 |
| Chacarita | Puntarenas Province | 26,354 |
| San Juan | San José | 26,047 |
| Guadalupe | San José | 26,005 |
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.