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Darbhanga, 
India
950,875 people lived in Darbhanga in 2025. It is the 547th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 85th 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 Darbhanga's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Darbhanga grew
Where Darbhanga had 10 people in 1975, it had 31.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Darbhanga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Darbhanga in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Darbhanga 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, Darbhanga covered 127 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Darbhanga, which is 950,875 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Darbhanga. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 543 Samara Russia955,599
- 544 Mwanza Tanzania954,104
- 545 Dagupan [Lingayen] Philippines953,092
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 548 Nyala Sudan950,803
- 549 Trujillo Peru949,018
- 550 Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo948,948
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
In India, 2025
- 516 Mangaluru993,566
- 519 Gaya991,081
- 539 Dharwad965,667
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
- 579 Erode892,758
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
- 586 Bikaner882,222
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Darbhanga 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 Darbhanga 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