About Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is a city in Galicia, Spain with a population of 99,536. It is the 67th largest of the 544 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Spain, and the 5,803rd largest worldwide. It lies 487 km from Madrid.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#4of 32
Coordinates
42.881, -8.546
Record updated
22 October 2025
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 544 in SpainClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.