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Chhindwara, 
India
293,950 people lived in Chhindwara in 2025. It is the 1978th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 322nd largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chhindwara 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 Chhindwara grew
For every 10 people in Chhindwara in 1975, there were 24.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 308,880 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Chhindwara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chhindwara in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: India and its 2,054 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New Delhi). Chhindwara is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Chhindwara covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.8 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 91%.
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 Chhindwara in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1974 Misrata Libya294,401
- 1975 Lichinga Mozambique294,317
- 1976 Chingola Zambia294,193
- 1977 Matala Angola294,087
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1979 Anlu China293,857
- 1980 Shahrisabz Uzbekistan293,849
- 1981 Bohicon Benin293,833
- 1982 San-Pédro Côte d’Ivoire293,698
In India, 2025
- 1950 Valsad296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
- 1952 Najibabad296,669
- 1967 Wardha295,117
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Chhindwara 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 Chhindwara 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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