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Basirhat, 
India
419,703 people lived in Basirhat in 2025. It is the 1341st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 216th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Basirhat is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Basirhat grew
For every 10 people in Basirhat in 1975, there were 34.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 488,689 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Basirhat through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Basirhat 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). Basirhat 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, Basirhat covered 120 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.7 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 64%.
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 Basirhat in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1337 Giridih420,525
- 1338 Probolinggo Indonesia420,356
- 1339 Baidoa Somalia420,281
- 1340 Hosur420,017
- 1341 Basirhat419,703
- 1342 Mykolaiv Ukraine419,484
- 1343 Ikot Ekpene Nigeria418,650
- 1344 Petrolina Brazil418,619
- 1345 Nice France418,294
In India, 2025
- 1331 Bathinda421,753
- 1336 Navsari421,121
- 1337 Giridih420,525
- 1340 Hosur420,017
- 1341 Basirhat419,703
- 1347 Chandrapur416,903
- 1362 Hathras413,122
- 1371 Bharuch411,095
- 1385 Waidhan408,489
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 Basirhat 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 Basirhat 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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