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Anand, 
India
664,789 people lived in Anand in 2025. It is the 816th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 127th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Anand governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Anand grew
Count 10 people in Anand in 1975 and the same count gives 27.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 786,108 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: 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
Anand through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anand in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: India and its 2,054 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New Delhi). Anand is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Anand covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.9 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Anand in 2025 — about 1 in 2,222.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 812 Palermo Italy667,442
- 813 Maradi Niger666,205
- 814 Changwon South Korea665,772
- 815 Fushun China665,286
- 816 Anand664,789
- 817 St. Louis United States663,392
- 818 Blida Algeria663,070
- 819 Leiyang China662,696
- 820 Wuppertal Germany662,663
In India, 2025
- 788 Akola683,391
- 789 Vapi682,459
- 795 Jamnagar680,589
- 801 Yamunanagar677,536
- 816 Anand664,789
- 821 Kannur662,128
- 822 Jhansi662,059
- 827 Siliguri658,183
- 838 Dhule643,777
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 Anand 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 Anand 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