City Map Compare/Monterrey vs San Antonio
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Monterrey

685 km²

San Antonio

640 km²

Monterrey vs San Antonio: Urban Area Size

Monterrey covers 685 km² of contiguous built-up land, 1.1× the built-up area of San Antonio (640 km²).

MonterreySan Antonio
Urban areaMonterreySan Antonio
Population (2025)4.01 million1.51 million
Built-up area685 km²640 km²
Density5,856 /km²2,365 /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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