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Ballia, 
India
576,284 people lived in Ballia in 2025. It is the 953rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 148th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Ballia 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 Ballia grew
Count 10 people in Ballia in 1975 and the same count gives 27.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 705,657 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Ballia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ballia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ballia 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, Ballia covered 97 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.9 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 Ballia in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 949 Damanhur Egypt579,215
- 950 Jashore Bangladesh578,026
- 951 Beihai China577,338
- 952 Binzhou China576,823
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 954 Valledupar Colombia574,824
- 955 Nakuru Kenya574,091
- 956 Dera Ghazi Khan Pakistan572,505
- 957 Caleta Sanitaria Peru572,154
In India, 2025
- 930 Deoria586,987
- 938 Ujjain583,405
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 958 Alwar571,972
- 968 Mathura566,188
- 975 Sultanpur562,032
- 980 Chhapra559,249
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 Ballia 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 Ballia 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