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Bibhutpur, 
India
1,904,411 people lived in Bibhutpur in 2025. It is the 264th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bibhutpur grew
Where Bibhutpur had 10 people in 1990, it had 336.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.8 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Bibhutpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bibhutpur 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). Bibhutpur 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, Bibhutpur covered 608 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 8.1 times its size, and its people are 6.2 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Bibhutpur, which is 1.9 million people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Bibhutpur; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 260 San Diego United States1,915,114
- 261 Lisbon Portugal1,913,798
- 262 Bucharest Romania1,909,536
- 263 Sialkot Pakistan1,907,978
- 264 Bibhutpur1,904,411
- 265 Malang Indonesia1,899,616
- 266 Kaduna Nigeria1,890,448
- 267 Warsaw Poland1,882,756
- 268 Monrovia Liberia1,879,092
In India, 2025
- 245 Dhanbad2,020,181
- 246 Mehsi2,018,610
- 247 Nashik1,996,763
- 253 Jamshedpur1,956,840
- 264 Bibhutpur1,904,411
- 274 Ranchi1,819,944
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
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 Bibhutpur are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Bibhutpur 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