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Birpur, 
India
339,926 people lived in Birpur in 2025. It is the 1682nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 272nd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Birpur 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 Birpur grew
For every 10 people in Birpur in 2005, there were 60.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 507,073 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Birpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Birpur 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). Birpur 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, Birpur covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.1 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 81%.
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 Birpur in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1678 Takamatsu Japan340,478
- 1679 Pyŏngsŏng North Korea340,370
- 1680 Gojra Pakistan340,108
- 1681 Wazirabad Pakistan340,058
- 1682 Birpur339,926
- 1683 Bo'ai China339,876
- 1684 Bhagalpur339,560
- 1685 Montería Colombia339,380
- 1686 Çerkezköy Türkiye338,995
In India, 2025
- 1649 Khammam346,533
- 1650 Burhanpur346,277
- 1664 Etah344,002
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai342,795
- 1682 Birpur339,926
- 1684 Bhagalpur339,560
- 1696 Thakurdwara336,772
- 1701 Pupri336,223
- 1703 Tanur335,953
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 Birpur are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Birpur 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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