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Akola, 
India
683,391 people lived in Akola in 2025. It is the 788th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 123rd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Akola 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 Akola grew
Where Akola had 10 people in 1975, it had 18.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 741,423 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
Akola through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Akola in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Akola 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, Akola covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 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 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 81%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Akola in 2025 — about 1 in 2,128.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 784 Zhoukou China689,599
- 785 Fresno United States685,330
- 786 Beni Suef Egypt684,414
- 787 Okara Pakistan683,747
- 788 Akola683,391
- 789 Vapi682,459
- 790 Florianópolis Brazil682,065
- 791 Longgang China681,306
- 792 Santiago de los Caballeros Dominican Republic681,087
In India, 2025
- 757 Panipat710,363
- 760 Rasoi703,790
- 774 Shahjahanpur694,580
- 778 Panvel692,036
- 788 Akola683,391
- 789 Vapi682,459
- 795 Jamnagar680,589
- 801 Yamunanagar677,536
- 816 Anand664,789
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 Akola 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 Akola 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 →
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