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Bhilwara, 
India
434,406 people lived in Bhilwara in 2025. It is the 1288th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 205th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Bhilwara 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 Bhilwara grew
Where Bhilwara had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 500,337 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Bhilwara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bhilwara 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). Bhilwara 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, Bhilwara covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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 Bhilwara in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1284 Sterling Heights United States435,980
- 1285 Sambhal435,760
- 1286 Gaozhou China435,368
- 1287 Seremban Malaysia434,530
- 1288 Bhilwara434,406
- 1289 Daska Pakistan433,772
- 1290 Shizhong China433,213
- 1291 Mbandaka Democratic Republic of the Congo432,976
- 1292 Hamilton Canada432,788
In India, 2025
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1270 Dindigul438,809
- 1279 Cuddalore436,495
- 1285 Sambhal435,760
- 1288 Bhilwara434,406
- 1294 Jhusi431,880
- 1296 Padrauna431,649
- 1300 Katihar430,470
- 1307 Khansahib428,041
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 Bhilwara 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 Bhilwara 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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