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Bokaro, 
India
862,593 people lived in Bokaro in 2025. It is the 605th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 91st 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 Bokaro grew
For every 10 people in Bokaro in 1975, there were 22.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 927,782 people in 2050.
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
Bokaro through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bokaro in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bokaro 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, Bokaro covered 99 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Bokaro, which is 862,593 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 Bokaro's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 601 Cagayan de Oro Philippines870,291
- 602 Agadir Morocco869,990
- 603 Katowice Poland865,777
- 604 Bata Equatorial Guinea863,383
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 607 Valparaíso Chile861,145
- 608 Aracaju Brazil859,845
- 609 Xinxiang China858,975
In India, 2025
- 579 Erode892,758
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
- 586 Bikaner882,222
- 594 Firozabad878,282
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
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 Bokaro 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 Bokaro 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