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Major Cities. Cities & Municipalities. The population of all cities and communes in the Autonomous Community of Madrid with more than 15,000 inhabitants according to census results and latest register evaluations. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid.
Spain has 2 cities with more than a million people, 88 cities with between 100,000 and 1 million people, and 770 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people. The largest city in Spain is Madrid, with a population of 3,255,944 people.
Madrid's 2024 population is now estimated at 6,783,241. In 1950, the population of Madrid was 1,699,752. Madrid has grown by 31,867 in the last year, which represents a 0.47% annual change. These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects.
The Puerta del Sol Square or “Plaza” is the main public space in Madrid. Madrid is the biggest city in Spain by population, with 3,334,730 people calling it home. Madrid is the capital of Spain and lies almost directly in the center of the Iberian Peninsula.
This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in Spain by population. Infographic based on Corinne Land Cover 2018. IGN. Estimates are from the following sources: the "Functional Urban Areas" (FUAs) of the Study on Urban Functions of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON, 2007)
The Madrid metropolitan area comprises Madrid and the surrounding municipalities. According to Eurostat, the "metropolitan region" of Madrid has a population of slightly more than 6.271 million people covering an area of 4,609.7 km 2 (1,780 sq mi). It is the largest in Spain and the second largest in the European Union.
Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Madrid, Spain metro area from 1950 to 2024. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035. The current metro area population of Madrid in 2024 is 6,783,000, a 0.47% increase from 2023.
