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Banda, 
India
289,334 people lived in Banda in 2025. It is the 2009th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 327th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Banda 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 Banda grew
Count 10 people in Banda in 1975 and the same count gives 23.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 341,113 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Banda through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Banda 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 Banda; 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, Banda covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.7 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 3.9 times its size, and its people are 2.4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Banda in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2003 Taloqan Afghanistan290,028
- 2007 Okrika Nigeria289,429
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2010 Qamishli Syria289,200
- 2011 Tacoma United States289,128
- 2012 Kombolcha Ethiopia288,941
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
In India, 2025
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
- 2021 Bhiwani288,360
- 2033 Jianpur286,148
- 2036 Gondia285,870
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 Banda 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 Banda 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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