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Chandigarh, 
India
2,437,733 people lived in Chandigarh in 2025. It is the 203rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chandigarh governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chandigarh grew
Where Chandigarh had 10 people in 1975, it had 44.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Chandigarh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chandigarh 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 Chandigarh; 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, Chandigarh covered 364 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 75 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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, 2 lived in Chandigarh, which is 2.4 million people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Chandigarh; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 199 Bhopal2,487,205
- 200 Curitiba Brazil2,475,352
- 201 Tunis Tunisia2,473,428
- 202 Dighwara2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh2,437,733
- 204 Lomé Togo2,415,011
- 205 Ponnani2,409,567
- 206 Coimbatore2,382,988
- 207 Rome Italy2,376,474
In India, 2025
- 173 Tamluk2,894,484
- 180 Agra2,786,762
- 199 Bhopal2,487,205
- 202 Dighwara2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh2,437,733
- 205 Ponnani2,409,567
- 206 Coimbatore2,382,988
- 210 Prayagraj2,347,869
- 219 Vadodara2,270,298
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 Chandigarh 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 Chandigarh 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