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Bulandshahr, 
India
543,659 people lived in Bulandshahr in 2025. It is the 1013th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 161st 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 Bulandshahr grew
For every 10 people in Bulandshahr in 1975, there were 18.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 674,360 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
Bulandshahr through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bulandshahr 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). Bulandshahr 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, Bulandshahr covered 34 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.0 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 85%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Bulandshahr in 2025 — about 1 in 2,703.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1009 Wanzhou China544,748
- 1010 Cilacap Indonesia544,657
- 1011 Hisar543,775
- 1012 Huazhou China543,709
- 1013 Bulandshahr543,659
- 1014 Khabarovsk Russia543,422
- 1015 Salt Lake City United States542,449
- 1016 Djelfa Algeria542,414
- 1017 Leipzig Germany542,313
In India, 2025
- 999 Bahraich550,317
- 1005 Arrah547,584
- 1008 Silchar544,936
- 1011 Hisar543,775
- 1013 Bulandshahr543,659
- 1024 Tirupati539,275
- 1032 Bettiah535,979
- 1037 Shillong534,861
- 1038 Ahmednagar534,622
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 Bulandshahr 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 Bulandshahr 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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