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Amritsar, 
India
1,303,330 people lived in Amritsar in 2025. It is the 395th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 63rd largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Amritsar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Amritsar grew
For every 10 people in Amritsar in 1975, there were 20.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Amritsar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Amritsar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Amritsar 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, Amritsar covered 131 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Amritsar, which is 1.3 million 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 Amritsar; 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
- 391 Asunción Paraguay1,314,663
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 393 Tabriz Iran1,309,004
- 394 Kharkiv Ukraine1,308,892
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 396 Klipgat South Africa1,300,816
- 397 San Pedro Sula Honduras1,299,457
- 398 Tembisa South Africa1,298,512
- 399 Ilorin Nigeria1,282,219
In India, 2025
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 401 Saharanpur1,275,279
- 408 Tiruppur1,242,837
- 412 Gyanpur1,237,249
- 415 Kota1,232,364
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 Amritsar 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 Amritsar 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