Not looking for an exact number, just a guess/estimation.

Sorry if this question has been asked before, I'm simply too lazy busy to look for it.

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And by city, too, if you will.

I personally have no idea myself, nor any clues to lend. Sorry.

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I would guess Ponyville is maybe a few hundred. A few thousand easily in canterlot and manehattan. Applossa is also probably a few hundred

We dont know how many cities Equestria has total though.

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...anybody?

4493838 I've read stories with populations of 300,000 to 300,000,000. So it's anyone's guess as to what the population count is, though I do think that the three hundred million mark is more likely, just not possible to be shown in the show, only in fics.

I personally feel that it depends where you are in Equestria, with Ponyville being a fairly idyllic town out in the country of maybe a thousand.

Canterlot is a big city, but is rather exclusive, so maybe a population of 5000 or so. Manehatten is a giant source of commerce and business, so it's likely to have a larger population exceeding 10k or 20k.

I like to imagine that the world of Equestria is slightly larger than they put it in the show though, so that's just my opinion.

4493838 Well this one guy did a very exaustive investigation of Ponyville using the same techniques emploied by nature photographers to find the numbers of herd animals within an area. Here it is

He comes to the conclusion that "Ponyville has between 3,100 and 4,300 citizens."

Based on these figures and the fact that Ponyville is called a small town in the show, as well as a rural town and "out of the way" we can assume their population numbers based on settlements is similar to America, as that range is about right for a small rural town in America. From here we simply examine official sources for what FiM places are towns, and which are cities, and give them an estimated population equal to the average city or town size for an equivalent American town/city. Note, I am counting Manehatten as a Metropolitan due to it's size on the map, number of buildings, and how important it is based off what it's seai d to be int he show (and it's a New York City stand in).

Bassed on the official map of Equestria (which shows the towns and cities by drawing mini versions of hosues or large buildings), and the US census data from 2014, we have:

Metropolice:
Manehatten
-Total: 2,559,384 (based on average population of US's 10 largest cities. This is 30.14% the size of NYC.)

Cities:
Los Pegasus
Tall Tales
Yanhoover
Cloudsdale
Canterlot
Baltamare
Fillydelphia
-Total: 2,142,462 ponies (based on 306,066 average population of all US cities with more than 100k residents)

Towns:
Ponyville
Hollow Shades
Dodge City
Applooza
-Total: 32,671 ponies (based on the 8,167 average population of a US town given entire national population and total number of towns)

Grand Total: 4,734,517

That's not really a good number though because not all towns are on the map, Trottingham is mentioned in the show but not on the map. This means that like in reality towns below a certain size are probably left off the national map. Since Ponyville is between 3.1 and 4.2K ponies but on the map we can assume that 3k is the cut off point. Since 4.73 million is close in population numbers to Turkmenistan, let's assume that Equestria has a total number of settlements reasonably close to it. Why do this? Because economy, you cant sustain a nation on just 12 settlements.

That's 1,178 settlements, let's round it up to 1,180. So since we did the biggest settlements, we subtract them form this number to get 1,168. We based our population figures off America, so keeping to that standard, "Buford, Wyoming: Smallest Town In America. Boasting on the town limits sign its population of 1" The adverage of the range of 1 - 3,000 is 1,500, mathmaticly using the average works as a reasonable estimate even though that number per town will varry wildly.

So 1168*1500=1,752,000 giving us our last total for unmarked town population numbers at 1,752,000.

The estimated total population of Equestria is therefore: 6,486,517 ponies

Note: this makes Equestria roughly the same size as the Republic of El Salvador. If you need more country data, I would recommend using it as a basis as a nation's population is often the best limiting factors of it's economy, power, and the like.

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Realistically, based on the overhead shot during the intro and the type of town, etc, Ponyville will probably have about 5,000 people in it. Maybe more. There's probably not less (or much less) than that as specialist shops/restaurants require a certain infrastructure, as does mail service. I've lived in similar and my old home town was at about 5,700.

The niggling bits in that are the train station and the schoolhouse. That kind of schoolhouse marks a very small number of children in the community. It's not unheard of given the town's age, but it would suggest that the population is generally pretty young and, well, something of a boom town in that most of the current population would have moved there rather than be born there.

Having cargo service with trains running through is reasonable for a farming town if they're between points (which would account for mail). Regular passenger service like they do, less so. Possible, but less likely in that small a town that didn't get founded along the passenger lines to begin. The show suggests that it started primarily around the Riches' store, which he set up beside a nearby railway.

For cities? From what we saw of Manehattan, including density of buildings, roads, infrastructure (given apparent tech level) and jobs? Easily into the hundred thousands and likely at least 500k, which is incidentally around the population of New York in 1850.

Between Las Pegasus, Cloudsdale, Canterlot, Manhattan and Trottingham (considered a city or not isn't given for that last), you'd be well into the low millions, at least.

Judging from the big aerial shots of Ponyville, it's likely home to at least about a thousand ponies, maybe more. 1-2k would be reasonable, though it feels more populated than that. I'd probably go even higher, maybe 5k or so.

Canterlot gets trickier, since its size tends to depend on where it's viewed from. It certainly looks bigger from within than from without. From the views we've gotten inside the city, I'd say it's at least a few times Ponyville's population. 10k or so seems about right as a low estimate, though I could easily go many times that. If I had to guess at a number, I'd probably pick something between 20k and 50k.

The shots we've seen of Manehattan included large numbers of skyscrapers and heavy infrastructure. Realistically speaking, I'd expect somewhere around 100k or more, and it's hard to judge an upper limit for it. Could be millions, easily enough.

Though all of this is also limited by the medium, which tends to present things as smaller to save detail and effort. That's why you get things like Canterlot seeming bigger when you're there rather than viewing it from a distance. Given that, and extrapolating based on real-world logic, I could easily see Canterlot being upward of 100k, or Manehattan being upwards of a million or more.

The overall population of Equestria is going to depend largely on these assumptions. Personally, I'd expect it to be somewhere in the range between a hundred thousand and... maybe a hundred million.

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We dont know how many cities Equestria has total though.

Just to give you an idea:

Every individual gem in that statue supposedly represents one major Equestrian city, important enough to have political influence. That doesn't take into account small towns and villages.

4493992 Damn, that's somewhere between 140-150 major cities.

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I know, right? Apparently, Equestria is huge.

4494073 If this is accurate, we're talking about a country the size of either Canada or Russia, damn that's a lot of ponies!

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Note that Equestria seems to technically be some sort of empire - the Crystal Empire (which ironically appears to be a city state) evidently counts as part of Equestria yet is ruled by Cadence and Shining, suggesting it's a province or protectorate.

Interestingly, Maretonia seems to be an autonomous principality, since the Duke and Duchess were treated as guests and required certain decorum even from Celestia and the other princesses. So there may actually be even more pony states that are not a direct part of Equestria proper.

4493838 6.25 million, with 500,000 in Canterlot.

4494415 I do find it weird how much Cadance and Armor are involved with what happens in Equestria. I get that pretty much nothing bad happens in the Crystal Empire, but you'd think that they would at least be more concerned with their own empire first. I do like that there are different nations of ponies on the planet, ponies that Celestia has no authority over.

4493992 well equestrian must have around 300 million at minimum,

4493838 I would base it off America during the late 1800s since that's closest to where Equestria is at in time.

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Twenty.

The rest are just repaints.