Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, India

For every 10 people in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in 1975, there were 22.7 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 1.7 million people in 2050. It passed a million 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.

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 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar covered 124 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 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 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, which is 1.6 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 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
2. 314 Rajkot1,581,235
3. 315 Datong China1,573,531
4. 316 Uyo Nigeria1,567,115
5. 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
6. 318 Cirebon Indonesia1,566,821
7. 319 Nouakchott Mauritania1,561,617
8. 320 Tijuana Mexico1,557,695
9. 321 Gwalior1,554,246

In India, 2025

1. 298 Bareilly1,635,214
2. 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
3. 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
4. 314 Rajkot1,581,235
5. 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
6. 321 Gwalior1,554,246
7. 323 Vasai-Virar1,542,177
8. 330 Gorakhpur1,519,206
9. 332 Jodhpur1,515,910

How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.

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The figures for Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar 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 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar 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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