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Badaun, 
India
382,686 people lived in Badaun in 2025. It is the 1486th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 241st largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Badaun 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 Badaun grew
Where Badaun had 10 people in 1975, it had 14.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 438,088 people in 2050.
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
Badaun through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Badaun 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). Badaun 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, Badaun covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 49%.
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 Badaun in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1482 Tongling China383,739
- 1483 Eluru383,068
- 1484 Villavicencio Colombia383,028
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
- 1487 Pohang-si South Korea382,368
- 1488 Guangyuan China381,738
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain381,670
- 1490 Changji/Sanji China381,391
In India, 2025
- 1452 Nadiad391,934
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj389,533
- 1483 Eluru383,068
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
- 1503 Kralpora377,602
- 1509 Tirunelveli376,005
- 1514 Viluppuram375,616
- 1523 Debandi374,423
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 Badaun 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 Badaun 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