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Chakan, 
India
233,615 people lived in Chakan in 2025. It is the 2515th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 409th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Chakan 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 Chakan grew
Count 10 people in Chakan in 1995 and the same count gives 28.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,607 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Chakan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chakan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chakan 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, Chakan covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 53 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 10.3 times its size, and its people are 2.8 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Chakan in 2025 — about 1 in 6,250.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2495 Blumenau Brazil234,982
- 2498 Tanda234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara234,318
- 2513 El Geneina Sudan233,696
- 2515 Chakan233,615
- 2517 Kasama Zambia233,587
- 2519 Limbe Cameroon233,212
- 2523 Atbara Sudan232,808
- 2526 Mutuati Kenya232,440
In India, 2025
- 2482 Modanganj236,293
- 2483 Amarpur236,273
- 2498 Tanda234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara234,318
- 2515 Chakan233,615
- 2567 Masrakh228,857
- 2617 Maharajganj225,197
- 2630 Ramgarh224,417
- 2662 Sahebganj221,858
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 Chakan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Chakan 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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