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Bikaner, 
India
882,222 people lived in Bikaner in 2025. It is the 586th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 89th 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bikaner grew
Where Bikaner had 10 people in 1975, it had 37.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 971,616 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bikaner through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bikaner in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bikaner is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bikaner covered 96 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Bikaner, which is 882,222 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Bikaner. 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
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
- 583 The Hague Netherlands886,444
- 584 Nampula Mozambique885,780
- 585 Kayseri Türkiye882,238
- 586 Bikaner882,222
- 587 Huadu China882,089
- 588 Ulsan South Korea881,858
- 589 Ufa Russia880,583
- 590 Querétaro Mexico880,361
In India, 2025
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
- 579 Erode892,758
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
- 586 Bikaner882,222
- 594 Firozabad878,282
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
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 Bikaner 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 Bikaner 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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