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Bilaspur, 
India
799,772 people lived in Bilaspur in 2025. It is the 661st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 104th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Bilaspur 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 Bilaspur grew
For every 10 people in Bilaspur in 1975, there were 23.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 917,791 people in 2050.
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
Bilaspur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bilaspur 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). Bilaspur 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, Bilaspur covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 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 5.2 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Bilaspur, which is 799,772 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bilaspur's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 657 Jining China803,706
- 658 Andijon Uzbekistan803,518
- 659 Abeokuta Nigeria801,826
- 660 Belagavi800,130
- 661 Bilaspur799,772
- 662 Kandahar Afghanistan799,015
- 663 Cuiabá Brazil798,772
- 664 Qinhuangdao China797,748
- 665 Arusha Tanzania795,744
In India, 2025
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 646 Munger814,325
- 656 Udaipur807,617
- 660 Belagavi800,130
- 661 Bilaspur799,772
- 680 Jalgaon781,486
- 683 Rourkela776,631
- 685 Kharagpur776,133
- 689 Amravati771,610
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 Bilaspur 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 Bilaspur 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