City Map Compare/Bogotá vs San José
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Bogotá

534 km²

San José

491 km²

Bogotá vs San José: Urban Area Size

Bogotá covers 534 km² of contiguous built-up land, 1.1× the built-up area of San José (491 km²).

BogotáSan José
Urban areaBogotáSan José
Population (2025)10.4 million2.27 million
Built-up area534 km²491 km²
Density19,512 /km²4,628 /km²

Urban area = contiguous built-up land and the people living in it in 2025, drawn the same way for every city regardless of administrative boundaries. Source: GHSL Urban Centre Database R2024A, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0); some names adjusted to the city names people use, and country attribution follows the dataset.

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