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Agra, 
India
2,786,762 people lived in Agra in 2025. It is the 180th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Agra 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 Agra grew
For every 10 people in Agra in 1975, there were 25.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 3.1 million 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
Agra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Agra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Agra is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Agra covered 209 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 52 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 2 lived in Agra, which is 2.8 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Agra's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 176 Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo2,832,853
- 177 Tasikmalaya Indonesia2,827,255
- 178 Dalian China2,796,248
- 179 Yogyakarta Indonesia2,793,747
- 180 Agra2,786,762
- 181 Naples Italy2,767,923
- 182 Conacry Guinea2,727,684
- 183 Essen Germany2,717,087
- 184 Cali Colombia2,700,232
In India, 2025
- 162 Kollam3,074,562
- 166 Thiruvananthapuram2,946,119
- 167 Asansol2,924,741
- 173 Tamluk2,894,484
- 180 Agra2,786,762
- 199 Bhopal2,487,205
- 202 Dighwara2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh2,437,733
- 205 Ponnani2,409,567
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Agra 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 Agra 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