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Canning, 
India
447,522 people lived in Canning in 2025. It is the 1242nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 197th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Canning 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 Canning grew
For every 10 people in Canning in 1975, there were 71.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 527,760 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Canning through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Canning in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Canning; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Canning covered 142 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 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 Canning in 2025 — about 1 in 3,226.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1238 Heyuan China449,860
- 1239 Penza Russia449,851
- 1240 Ramadi Iraq449,183
- 1241 Mannheim Germany448,203
- 1242 Canning447,522
- 1243 Zoucheng China447,484
- 1244 Kolwezi Democratic Republic of the Congo446,709
- 1245 Sirajganj Bangladesh446,632
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
In India, 2025
- 1218 Saharsa456,879
- 1221 Raiganj456,239
- 1236 Basti450,449
- 1237 Vijayapura450,192
- 1242 Canning447,522
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Canning 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 Canning 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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