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Agartala, 
India
758,699 people lived in Agartala in 2025. It is the 703rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 112th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Agartala is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Agartala grew
Count 10 people in Agartala in 1975 and the same count gives 19.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 884,598 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Agartala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Agartala in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Agartala; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Agartala covered 110 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 94%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Agartala, which is 758,699 people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Agartala; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 699 Sangli761,451
- 700 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom760,969
- 701 Yangzhou China759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang China758,800
- 703 Agartala758,699
- 704 Kalemie Democratic Republic of the Congo758,379
- 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
- 706 Taxila Pakistan757,451
- 707 Xinyu China756,365
In India, 2025
- 689 Amravati771,610
- 692 Cape Town770,260
- 693 Nanded770,215
- 699 Sangli761,451
- 703 Agartala758,699
- 712 Kalaburagi753,963
- 724 Bhavnagar739,115
- 731 Nellore732,235
- 746 Patiala718,308
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Agartala are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Agartala publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries