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Aizawl, 
India
356,620 people lived in Aizawl in 2025. It is the 1595th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 256th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Aizawl grew
Where Aizawl had 10 people in 1980, it had 50.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 389,674 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Aizawl through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Aizawl 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 Aizawl; 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, Aizawl covered 29 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 2.2 times as many.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Aizawl in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain357,753
- 1593 Chiniot Pakistan357,181
- 1594 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas Ecuador356,829
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
- 1596 Vladikavkaz Russia356,422
- 1597 Memphis United States356,215
- 1598 Tula Russia356,025
- 1599 Qazvin Iran355,865
In India, 2025
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1570 Yavatmal363,908
- 1589 Pilibhit358,059
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
- 1600 Korba355,784
- 1603 Satara355,609
- 1604 Dhubri355,592
- 1619 Kurukshetra353,119
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Aizawl are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Aizawl 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