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Ecuador: cities by population

Ecuador has a population of 17,084,357, with Quito as its capital. The 50 largest of its 126 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	Quito	Pichincha	2,781,641
2	Guayaquil	Guayas	2,723,665
3	Cuenca	Azuay	636,996
4	Santo Domingo de los Colorados	Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas	458,580
5	Ambato	Tungurahua Province	387,309
6	Portoviejo	Manabí	321,800
7	Eloy Alfaro	Guayas	315,724
8	Machala	El Oro	289,141
9	Loja	Loja	274,112
10	Manta	Manabí	264,281
11	Riobamba	Chimborazo Province	264,048
12	Ibarra	Imbabura	221,149
13	Esmeraldas	Esmeraldas	218,727
14	Quevedo	Los Ríos	213,842
15	Latacunga	Cotopaxi	205,624
16	Daule	Guayas	173,684
17	Milagro	Guayas	133,508
18	Tulcán	Carchi	86,498
19	Babahoyo	Los Ríos	76,279
20	La Libertad	Guayas	75,881
21	El Empalme	Guayas	48,754
22	Puerto Francisco de Orellana	Orellana Province	48,144
23	Pasaje	El Oro	44,860
24	Chone	Manabí	44,751
25	Salinas	Santa Elena	43,862
26	Santa Elena	Santa Elena	42,214
27	Rosa Zarate	Esmeraldas	42,121
28	Santa Rosa	El Oro	41,816
29	Balzar	Guayas	40,115
30	Huaquillas	El Oro	39,757
31	Ventanas	Los Ríos	38,168
32	Bahía de Caráquez	Manabí	37,056
33	La Troncal	Canar	36,353
34	Jipijapa	Manabí	35,901
35	Azogues	Canar	34,877
36	Naranjito	Guayas	34,206
37	Vinces	Los Ríos	32,497
38	Otavalo	Imbabura	32,330
39	El Triunfo	Guayas	32,282
40	Naranjal	Guayas	32,045
41	Posorja	Guayas	30,886
42	Playas	Guayas	30,564
43	Pomasqui	Pichincha	28,724
44	Yaguachi Nuevo	Guayas	27,947
45	Guabo	El Oro	26,635
46	Cayambe	Pichincha	26,582
47	Arenillas	El Oro	26,000
48	Machachi	Pichincha	25,742
49	Puyo	Pastaza Province	24,881
50	Nueva Loja	Sucumbíos	24,211

Twenty years earlier: Ecuador in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 12,090,804.