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Chandrapur, 
India
416,903 people lived in Chandrapur in 2025. It is the 1347th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 217th 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 Chandrapur grew
Where Chandrapur had 10 people in 1975, it had 22.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 443,310 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Chandrapur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chandrapur 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 Chandrapur; 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, Chandrapur covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.3 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Chandrapur in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1343 Ikot Ekpene Nigeria418,650
- 1344 Petrolina Brazil418,619
- 1345 Nice France418,294
- 1346 Eldoret Kenya418,175
- 1347 Chandrapur416,903
- 1348 Taixing China416,677
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
- 1350 Lishui China416,469
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
In India, 2025
- 1336 Navsari421,121
- 1337 Giridih420,525
- 1340 Hosur420,017
- 1341 Basirhat419,703
- 1347 Chandrapur416,903
- 1362 Hathras413,122
- 1371 Bharuch411,095
- 1385 Waidhan408,489
- 1388 Jalna406,973
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 Chandrapur 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 Chandrapur 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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