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Batala, 
India
281,142 people lived in Batala in 2025. It is the 2068th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 334th largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Batala's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Batala grew
Where Batala had 10 people in 1975, it had 16.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 307,968 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Batala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Batala 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 Batala; 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, Batala covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.0 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 63%.
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 Batala in 2025 — about 1 in 5,263.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2063 Moundou Chad281,943
- 2064 Ikirun Nigeria281,875
- 2065 Heroica Nogales Mexico281,580
- 2066 Cape Coast Ghana281,579
- 2068 Batala281,142
- 2071 Shankarpur280,248
- 2072 Tundla280,215
- 2073 Kofu Japan280,212
- 2074 Mary Turkmenistan280,172
In India, 2025
- 2033 Jianpur286,148
- 2036 Gondia285,870
- 2046 Zakiganj284,125
- 2054 Boisar283,063
- 2068 Batala281,142
- 2071 Shankarpur280,248
- 2072 Tundla280,215
- 2080 Ekma279,229
- 2082 Medininagar278,795
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 Batala 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 Batala 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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