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Cuddalore, 
India
436,495 people lived in Cuddalore in 2025. It is the 1279th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 203rd largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Cuddalore's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Cuddalore grew
Count 10 people in Cuddalore in 1975 and the same count gives 32.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 462,743 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Cuddalore through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Cuddalore 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). Cuddalore 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, Cuddalore covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 10.1 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Cuddalore in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1275 Matsuyama Japan437,355
- 1276 Titi Nigeria436,744
- 1277 Geneva Switzerland436,587
- 1278 Kaliningrad Russia436,555
- 1279 Cuddalore436,495
- 1280 Chiayi Taiwan436,393
- 1281 Oron Nigeria436,247
- 1282 Guang'an China436,199
- 1283 Pabna Bangladesh436,119
In India, 2025
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1270 Dindigul438,809
- 1279 Cuddalore436,495
- 1285 Sambhal435,760
- 1288 Bhilwara434,406
- 1294 Jhusi431,880
- 1296 Padrauna431,649
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 Cuddalore 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 Cuddalore 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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