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Ballari, 
India
587,340 people lived in Ballari in 2025. It is the 929th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 143rd 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 Ballari grew
For every 10 people in Ballari in 1975, there were 17.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 608,041 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
Ballari through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ballari 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). Ballari 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, Ballari covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.6 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 79%.
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 Ballari in 2025 — about 1 in 2,500.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 925 Weihai China589,850
- 926 Benguela Angola589,289
- 927 Jalalabad Afghanistan587,508
- 928 Sagar587,471
- 929 Ballari587,340
- 930 Deoria586,987
- 931 Kuching Malaysia586,880
- 932 Izhevsk Russia586,811
- 933 Yenagoa Nigeria586,393
In India, 2025
- 906 Jangalpara600,501
- 923 Darjeeling590,052
- 924 Brahmapur590,028
- 928 Sagar587,471
- 929 Ballari587,340
- 930 Deoria586,987
- 938 Ujjain583,405
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
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 Ballari 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 Ballari 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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