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Bhadrak, 
India
291,997 people lived in Bhadrak in 2025. It is the 1988th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 323rd largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Bhadrak governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bhadrak grew
For every 10 people in Bhadrak in 1975, there were 25 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,708 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: 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
Bhadrak through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bhadrak 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). Bhadrak 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, Bhadrak covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.0 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people have grown by 56%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Bhadrak in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1984 Hazro Pakistan293,506
- 1985 Kasaji Democratic Republic of the Congo292,523
- 1986 Kanyamazane South Africa292,211
- 1987 Matara Sri Lanka292,019
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1990 Bayannur China291,787
- 1991 Pangkalpinang Indonesia291,683
- 1992 Beledweyne Somalia291,630
- 1994 Cherepovets Russia291,159
In India, 2025
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
- 1952 Najibabad296,669
- 1967 Wardha295,117
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
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 Bhadrak 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 Bhadrak 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