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Barharia, 
India
1,038,927 people lived in Barharia in 2025. It is the 492nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 77th 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 Barharia grew
Where Barharia had 10 people in 1975, it had 148.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Barharia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Barharia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Barharia 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, Barharia covered 354 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 13.3 times its size, and its people are 9.4 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Barharia, which is 1.0 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Barharia. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 488 Kutubdia Bangladesh1,053,339
- 489 Tuen Mun Hong Kong1,053,083
- 490 Kottayam1,043,314
- 491 Sarvestan Iran1,039,168
- 492 Barharia1,038,927
- 493 Thalassery1,038,647
- 494 Gaza Palestine1,038,285
- 495 Mendoza Argentina1,027,849
- 496 Santos Brazil1,027,752
In India, 2025
- 458 Srinagar1,126,638
- 465 Berhampore1,109,144
- 468 Solapur1,102,702
- 490 Kottayam1,043,314
- 492 Barharia1,038,927
- 493 Thalassery1,038,647
- 511 Malda1,001,322
- 513 Puducherry998,290
- 516 Mangaluru993,566
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 Barharia 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 Barharia 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