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Bhavnagar, 
India
739,115 people lived in Bhavnagar in 2025. It is the 724th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 114th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Bhavnagar 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 Bhavnagar grew
Count 10 people in Bhavnagar in 1975 and the same count gives 21.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 816,847 people in 2050.
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
Bhavnagar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bhavnagar 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). Bhavnagar 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, Bhavnagar covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.1 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Bhavnagar, which is 739,115 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Bhavnagar. 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
- 720 La Plata Argentina742,952
- 721 Bilbao Spain741,795
- 722 Zinder Niger740,218
- 723 Şanlıurfa Türkiye739,807
- 724 Bhavnagar739,115
- 725 Dandong China738,721
- 726 Djibouti Djibouti738,192
- 727 Mexicali Mexico737,963
- 728 Saltillo Mexico737,662
In India, 2025
- 693 Nanded770,215
- 699 Sangli761,451
- 703 Agartala758,699
- 712 Kalaburagi753,963
- 724 Bhavnagar739,115
- 731 Nellore732,235
- 746 Patiala718,308
- 748 Haridwar717,990
- 756 Mirzapur710,567
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 Bhavnagar 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 Bhavnagar 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