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Azamgarh, 
India
551,621 people lived in Azamgarh in 2025. It is the 996th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 156th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Azamgarh governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Azamgarh grew
Where Azamgarh had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 701,158 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Azamgarh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Azamgarh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Azamgarh 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, Azamgarh covered 94 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.8 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Azamgarh in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 992 M'bour Senegal553,170
- 993 Yaroslavl Russia553,086
- 994 Tampa United States551,988
- 995 Panjin China551,709
- 996 Azamgarh551,621
- 997 Luhe China551,106
- 998 Boumerdes Algeria550,700
- 999 Bahraich550,317
- 1000 Riga Latvia550,267
In India, 2025
- 980 Chhapra559,249
- 981 Davanagere559,117
- 984 Kalyanpur557,803
- 991 Rampur553,229
- 996 Azamgarh551,621
- 999 Bahraich550,317
- 1005 Arrah547,584
- 1008 Silchar544,936
- 1011 Hisar543,775
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 Azamgarh 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 Azamgarh 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