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Bihar Sharif, 
India
607,401 people lived in Bihar Sharif in 2025. It is the 895th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 138th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Bihar Sharif governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bihar Sharif grew
Where Bihar Sharif had 10 people in 1975, it had 28.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 737,953 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: 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
Bihar Sharif through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bihar Sharif in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Bihar Sharif; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bihar Sharif covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Bihar Sharif in 2025 — about 1 in 2,439.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 891 Sfax Tunisia608,293
- 892 Beira Mozambique608,097
- 893 Chapainawabganj Bangladesh607,924
- 894 Zhaoqing China607,624
- 895 Bihar Sharif607,401
- 896 Zhangjiakou China606,124
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom Egypt605,913
- 898 El Paso United States605,731
- 899 Anqiu China605,324
In India, 2025
- 872 Malegaon618,133
- 874 Farrukhabad615,831
- 876 Ambala615,565
- 885 Rajmahal612,055
- 895 Bihar Sharif607,401
- 906 Jangalpara600,501
- 923 Darjeeling590,052
- 924 Brahmapur590,028
- 928 Sagar587,471
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bihar Sharif 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 Bihar Sharif 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