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Bankura, 
India
306,650 people lived in Bankura in 2025. It is the 1878th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 306th 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 Bankura grew
Count 10 people in Bankura in 1975 and the same count gives 18.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 327,127 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Bankura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bankura 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). Bankura 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, Bankura covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.6 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 84%.
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 Bankura in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1874 Ughelli Nigeria307,005
- 1875 Juliaca Peru306,990
- 1876 Dessie Ethiopia306,979
- 1877 Wakefield United Kingdom306,684
- 1878 Bankura306,650
- 1879 Cenxi China306,146
- 1880 Golapganj Bangladesh306,017
- 1881 Mek'elē Ethiopia305,037
- 1882 Veys Iran304,967
In India, 2025
- 1841 Simri Bakhtiarpur311,434
- 1856 Beed310,278
- 1863 Madhepura309,065
- 1873 Damoh307,218
- 1878 Bankura306,650
- 1883 Benipur304,786
- 1887 Barmer304,268
- 1896 Sivakasi302,256
- 1899 Orai301,946
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 Bankura 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 Bankura 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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