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Alwar, 
India
571,972 people lived in Alwar in 2025. It is the 958th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 149th 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 Alwar grew
Count 10 people in Alwar in 1975 and the same count gives 23 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 671,520 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Alwar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Alwar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Alwar 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, Alwar covered 63 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Alwar in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 954 Valledupar Colombia574,824
- 955 Nakuru Kenya574,091
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan Pakistan572,505
- 957 Caleta Sanitaria Peru572,154
- 958 Alwar571,972
- 959 Jhang Pakistan571,359
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali Iraq570,883
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás Brazil570,302
- 962 Krasnoyarsk Russia569,604
In India, 2025
- 938 Ujjain583,405
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 958 Alwar571,972
- 968 Mathura566,188
- 975 Sultanpur562,032
- 980 Chhapra559,249
- 981 Davanagere559,117
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 Alwar 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 Alwar 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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