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Bahraich, 
India
550,317 people lived in Bahraich in 2025. It is the 999th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 157th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bahraich grew
Where Bahraich had 10 people in 1975, it had 21.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 684,566 people in 2050.
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
Bahraich through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bahraich in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Bahraich; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bahraich covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.1 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.2 times as many.
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 Bahraich in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 995 Panjin China551,709
- 996 Azamgarh551,621
- 997 Luhe China551,106
- 998 Boumerdes Algeria550,700
- 999 Bahraich550,317
- 1000 Riga Latvia550,267
- 1001 Sheffield United Kingdom549,695
- 1002 Purwakarta Indonesia549,480
- 1003 Kikwit Democratic Republic of the Congo549,102
In India, 2025
- 981 Davanagere559,117
- 984 Kalyanpur557,803
- 991 Rampur553,229
- 996 Azamgarh551,621
- 999 Bahraich550,317
- 1005 Arrah547,584
- 1008 Silchar544,936
- 1011 Hisar543,775
- 1013 Bulandshahr543,659
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bahraich 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 Bahraich 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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