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12 largest cities in the Patagonian Desert

12 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Comodoro Rivadavia202 k
  2. 2Río Gallegos116 k
  3. 3Caleta Olivia56 k
  4. 4Río Grande53 k
  5. 5Zapala40 k
  6. 6Esquel37 k
  7. 7Pico Truncado25 k
  8. 8Las Heras25 k
  9. 9El Calafate23 k
  10. 10Junín de los Andes19 k
  11. 11Puerto Deseado17 k
  12. 12Stanley2 k

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; below that, a city ranks by its urban centre in the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects 2025 at 1 January 2026 (every city of 300,000 or more and every capital, counted by the Degree of Urbanisation on a 1 km grid), and a smaller city by its city-proper figure. A city inside another city’s metro area ranks on its own only where it has an urban centre of its own (Pretoria, Shenzhen); one without (Giza, in Cairo’s) is not ranked. The Patagonian Desert: what lies inside the desert’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit). Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of 12 largest cities in the Patagonian Desert, 12 cities: each one marked on the globe

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