List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean

Havana

This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the insular Caribbean , based on the latest official population estimates or projections.

Rank	Metropolitan area	Population	Year	Country/territory
1	Santo Domingo	4,751,036 [1]	2025	Dominican Republic
2	Havana	2,732,971 [2]	2024	Cuba
3	Port-au-Prince	2,618,894 [3]	2015	Haiti
4	San Juan	2,035,733 [a] [4]	2023	Puerto Rico
5	Kingston	1,190,763 [b] [6]	2015	Jamaica
6	Santiago de los Caballeros	1,074,684 [c] [8]	2015	Dominican Republic
7	Nassau	296,522	2024	Bahamas
8	Willemstad	136,660		Curaçao
9	Port of Spain	81,142	2024	Trinidad and Tobago

See also

• List of Caribbean countries by population
• List of populated places in the Caribbean

Notes

1. The population of the San Juan metropolitan area is 842,535 in municipalities in its continuous conurbation and 1,193,198 in municipalities outside its urban core.
2. The National Works Agency of Jamaica defines the Kingston Metropolitan Region as comprising the parishes of Kingston, Saint Catherine and Saint Andrew. ^[5]
3. In 2022, Reynaldo Peguero, the director of the Santiago Development Council (Consejo de Desarrollo de Santiago, CDES), defined the metropolitan area of Santiago as comprising the municipalities of Santiago proper, Baitoa, Licey al Medio, Puñal, Tamboril and Villa González. ^[7]

References

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3. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. March 2016. Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
4. "Puerto Rico Municipios Population Totals: 2020-2023". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. June 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
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7. Peguero, Reynaldo (2015-10-31). "Atención al Ordenamiento del Área Metropolitana de Santiago" (in Spanish). Acento. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
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