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Benipur, 
India
304,786 people lived in Benipur in 2025. It is the 1883rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 307th 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 Benipur grew
Where Benipur had 10 people in 1995, it had 44.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 400,463 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Benipur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Benipur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Benipur 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, Benipur covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 68%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Benipur in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1879 Cenxi China306,146
- 1880 Golapganj Bangladesh306,017
- 1881 Mek'elē Ethiopia305,037
- 1882 Veys Iran304,967
- 1883 Benipur304,786
- 1884 Gaoming China304,429
- 1885 Nukus Uzbekistan304,362
- 1886 Yarim Yemen304,301
- 1887 Barmer304,268
In India, 2025
- 1856 Beed310,278
- 1863 Madhepura309,065
- 1873 Damoh307,218
- 1878 Bankura306,650
- 1883 Benipur304,786
- 1887 Barmer304,268
- 1896 Sivakasi302,256
- 1899 Orai301,946
- 1901 Jigani301,763
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 Benipur are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Benipur 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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