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Balia, 
India
465,399 people lived in Balia in 2025. It is the 1195th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 189th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Balia 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 Balia grew
For every 10 people in Balia in 2000, there were 31.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 771,564 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Balia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Balia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Balia 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, Balia covered 146 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.4 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
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 Balia in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1191 Ryazan Russia466,086
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
- 1193 Jundiaí Brazil465,531
- 1194 Tongxiang China465,450
- 1195 Balia465,399
- 1196 Manado Indonesia464,793
- 1197 Shanwei China464,738
- 1198 San Juan Argentina464,466
- 1199 Meizhou China464,343
In India, 2025
- 1175 Raebareli472,091
- 1183 Sitapur469,750
- 1186 Kurnool468,997
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
- 1195 Balia465,399
- 1201 Haldwani463,530
- 1208 Purnia461,043
- 1209 Nagercoil460,826
- 1218 Saharsa456,879
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 Balia are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Balia 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