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Chauri Chaura, 
India
126,176 people lived in Chauri Chaura in 2025. It is the 4847th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 809th 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 Chauri Chaura grew
Count 10 people in Chauri Chaura in 2000 and the same count gives 24.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 332,243 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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
Chauri Chaura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chauri Chaura in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chauri Chaura 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, Chauri Chaura covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 68%.
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 Chauri Chaura in 2025 — about 1 in 11,111.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4695 Sandila130,012
- 4719 Domeez Iraq129,444
- 4771 Mtwara Tanzania128,086
- 4839 Rihab Yemen126,332
- 4847 Chauri Chaura126,176
- 4864 Delingat Egypt125,765
- 4901 Hisor Tajikistan125,054
- 4902 Basha Ethiopia124,959
- 4936 Boditi Ethiopia123,992
In India, 2025
- 3871 Shahabad156,497
- 4071 Bairgachhi148,986
- 4370 Haidarganj139,637
- 4695 Sandila130,012
- 4847 Chauri Chaura126,176
- 5021 Phulidumar122,053
- 5616 Akbarpur109,949
- 6688 Fatehpur92,631
- 8197 Pattan75,975
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 Chauri Chaura are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Chauri Chaura 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