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Burhanpur, 
India
346,277 people lived in Burhanpur in 2025. It is the 1650th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 269th 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 Burhanpur grew
Count 10 people in Burhanpur in 1975 and the same count gives 23.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 427,142 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Burhanpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Burhanpur 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). Burhanpur 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, Burhanpur covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 2.4 times as many.
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 Burhanpur in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1646 Ondjiva Angola347,591
- 1647 Southampton United Kingdom347,446
- 1648 Mainpuri347,106
- 1649 Khammam346,533
- 1650 Burhanpur346,277
- 1651 Galle Sri Lanka346,263
- 1652 Francisco Morato Brazil346,105
- 1653 Ngandajika Democratic Republic of the Congo345,996
- 1654 Bo Sierra Leone345,988
In India, 2025
- 1634 Dahod350,660
- 1639 Simri348,804
- 1648 Mainpuri347,106
- 1649 Khammam346,533
- 1650 Burhanpur346,277
- 1664 Etah344,002
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai342,795
- 1682 Birpur339,926
- 1684 Bhagalpur339,560
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 Burhanpur 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 Burhanpur 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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