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Anantapur, 
India
442,201 people lived in Anantapur in 2025. It is the 1261st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 201st 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 Anantapur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Anantapur grew
Count 10 people in Anantapur in 1975 and the same count gives 26.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 486,090 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Anantapur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anantapur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Anantapur 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, Anantapur covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.9 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.2 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 Anantapur in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1257 Bishoftu Ethiopia442,776
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1259 Santa Marta Colombia442,455
- 1260 Blitar Indonesia442,219
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1262 Belfast United Kingdom441,925
- 1263 Toyohashi Japan441,665
- 1264 Chief Albert Luthuli Park South Africa441,204
- 1265 Zhanjiang China440,587
In India, 2025
- 1242 Canning447,522
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1270 Dindigul438,809
- 1279 Cuddalore436,495
- 1285 Sambhal435,760
- 1288 Bhilwara434,406
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 Anantapur 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 Anantapur 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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