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Anantnag, 
India
299,385 people lived in Anantnag in 2025. It is the 1918th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 315th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Anantnag 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 Anantnag grew
For every 10 people in Anantnag in 1975, there were 46.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 464,307 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Anantnag through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Anantnag 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). Anantnag 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, Anantnag covered 89 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.5 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 7.7 times its size, and its people are 4.1 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 Anantnag in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1914 Lublin Poland300,013
- 1915 Merca Somalia299,906
- 1916 Caruaru Brazil299,805
- 1917 Menongue Angola299,802
- 1918 Anantnag299,385
- 1919 Bukittinggi Indonesia299,353
- 1920 Saransk Russia299,262
- 1921 Sorong Indonesia299,181
- 1922 Yongcheng China299,180
In India, 2025
- 1901 Jigani301,763
- 1904 Amroha301,108
- 1905 Siwan300,919
- 1910 Sirsa300,414
- 1918 Anantnag299,385
- 1939 Karur297,598
- 1947 Attingal297,140
- 1950 Valsad296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
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 Anantnag 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 Anantnag 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