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Attingal, 
India
297,140 people lived in Attingal in 2025. It is the 1947th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 317th 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 Attingal's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Attingal grew
For every 10 people in Attingal in 1975, there were 27.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 367,746 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Attingal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Attingal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Attingal 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, Attingal covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.0 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 73%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Attingal in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1943 Chon Buri Thailand297,276
- 1944 Quy Nhơn Vietnam297,184
- 1945 Smolensk Russia297,177
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya Egypt297,143
- 1947 Attingal297,140
- 1948 Moulvibazar Bangladesh297,098
- 1949 Wenjiang China296,976
- 1950 Valsad296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
In India, 2025
- 1905 Siwan300,919
- 1910 Sirsa300,414
- 1918 Anantnag299,385
- 1939 Karur297,598
- 1947 Attingal297,140
- 1950 Valsad296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
- 1952 Najibabad296,669
- 1967 Wardha295,117
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 Attingal 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 Attingal 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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