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25 largest cities in the Sonoran Desert

25 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. 1Phoenix5.1 M
  2. 2Mexicali1.1 M
  3. 3Tucson1 M
  4. 4Hermosillo835 k
  5. 5Mesa504 k
  6. 6Indio441 k
  7. 7San Luis Río Colorado177 k
  8. 8San Tan Valley100 k
  9. 9Yuma96 k
  10. 10Goodyear95 k
  11. 11Casas Adobes71 k
  12. 12Heroica Caborca68 k
  13. 13Maricopa58 k
  14. 14Lake Havasu City57 k
  15. 15Casa Grande54 k
  16. 16Catalina Foothills52 k
  17. 17Marana52 k
  18. 18Cathedral City51 k
  19. 19Palm Desert51 k
  20. 20Buckeye51 k
  21. 21Oro Valley47 k
  22. 22Palm Springs45 k
  23. 23El Centro44 k
  24. 24Miguel Alemán (La Doce)39 k
  25. 25Empalme39 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 agglomeration in the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects 2018 (every one of 300,000 or more, from national censuses), and a smaller city by its city-proper figure. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. The Sonoran 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), Thomas Brinkhoff: Major Agglomerations of the World, citypopulation.de, United Nations, DESA, Population Division: World Urbanization Prospects 2018 (CC BY 3.0 IGO), Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of 25 largest cities in the Sonoran Desert, 25 cities: each one marked on the globe

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