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Colombia: cities by population

Colombia has a population of 49,648,685, with Bogota as its capital. The 50 largest of its 1,063 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

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 GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Bogotá	Bogota D.C.	7,674,366
2	Cali	Valle del Cauca Department	2,392,877
3	Medellín	Antioquia	1,999,979
4	Barranquilla	Atlántico	1,206,319
5	Cartagena	Bolívar	914,552
6	Cúcuta	Norte de Santander Department	777,106
7	Soacha	Cundinamarca	655,025
8	Bucaramanga	Santander Department	581,130
9	Ibagué	Tolima Department	529,635
10	Santa Marta	Magdalena Department	499,192
11	Montería	Córdoba	490,935
12	Valledupar	Cesar Department	490,075
13	Pereira	Risaralda Department	467,269
14	Manizales	Caldas Department	434,403
15	Buenaventura	Valle del Cauca Department	432,385
16	Bello	Antioquia	392,939
17	Pasto	Nariño	392,930
18	Neiva	Huila Department	357,392
19	Soledad	Atlántico	342,556
20	Villavicencio	Meta Department	321,717
21	Popayán	Cauca Department	318,059
22	Palmira	Valle del Cauca Department	312,519
23	Armenia	Quindío Department	304,314
24	Itagüí	Antioquia	281,853
25	Sincelejo	Sucre Department	277,773
26	Floridablanca	Santander Department	267,591
27	Buenaventura	Valle del Cauca Department	240,387
28	Tuluá	Valle del Cauca Department	221,684
29	Dosquebradas	Risaralda Department	206,693
30	Barrancabermeja	Santander Department	191,403
31	Riohacha	La Guajira Department	188,014
32	Tunja	Boyacá	172,548
33	Yopal	Casanare Department	168,433
34	Florencia	Caquetá	168,346
35	Maicao	La Guajira Department	166,603
36	Piedecuesta	Santander Department	163,362
37	Envigado	Antioquia	163,007
38	Facatativá	Cundinamarca	141,762
39	Pitalito	Huila Department	135,711
40	Madrid	Cundinamarca	135,000
41	Cartago	Valle del Cauca Department	134,972
42	Zipaquirá	Cundinamarca	130,432
43	Quibdó	Chocó	129,237
44	Malambo	Atlántico	129,148
45	Rionegro	Antioquia	128,153
46	Mosquera	Cundinamarca	128,012
47	Chía	Cundinamarca	124,309
48	Magangué	Bolívar	123,982
49	Funza	Cundinamarca	116,890
50	Guadalajara de Buga	Valle del Cauca Department	114,316

Twenty years earlier: Colombia in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 45,926,625.