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Cooch Behar, 
India
484,313 people lived in Cooch Behar in 2025. It is the 1144th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 180th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Cooch Behar is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cooch Behar grew
For every 10 people in Cooch Behar in 1975, there were 20.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 585,795 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
Cooch Behar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cooch Behar 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 Cooch Behar; 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, Cooch Behar covered 65 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 6.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 80%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Cooch Behar in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1140 Timerein Sudan486,586
- 1141 Yazd Iran485,381
- 1142 Enshi China485,222
- 1143 Haifa Israel484,770
- 1144 Cooch Behar484,313
- 1145 Kagoshima Japan484,164
- 1146 Dire Dawa Ethiopia483,674
- 1147 Huzhou China483,361
- 1148 Yar Hussain Pakistan483,239
In India, 2025
- 1128 Hardoi493,665
- 1135 Kakinada488,958
- 1138 Bazarati487,581
- 1139 Dimapur487,500
- 1144 Cooch Behar484,313
- 1154 Siuri480,595
- 1162 Gonda477,697
- 1166 Etawah475,213
- 1171 Ghazipur473,824
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 Cooch Behar 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 Cooch Behar 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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