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Darjeeling, 
India
590,052 people lived in Darjeeling in 2025. It is the 923rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 140th 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 Darjeeling's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Darjeeling grew
For every 10 people in Darjeeling in 1975, there were 27.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 655,640 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Darjeeling through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Darjeeling 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). Darjeeling 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, Darjeeling covered 132 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.5 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 47%.
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 Darjeeling in 2025 — about 1 in 2,500.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 919 Adana Türkiye593,872
- 920 Latakia Syria591,300
- 921 Yongchuan China590,694
- 922 Van Türkiye590,314
- 923 Darjeeling590,052
- 924 Brahmapur590,028
- 925 Weihai China589,850
- 926 Benguela Angola589,289
- 927 Jalalabad Afghanistan587,508
In India, 2025
- 876 Ambala615,565
- 885 Rajmahal612,055
- 895 Bihar Sharif607,401
- 906 Jangalpara600,501
- 923 Darjeeling590,052
- 924 Brahmapur590,028
- 928 Sagar587,471
- 929 Ballari587,340
- 930 Deoria586,987
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 Darjeeling 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 Darjeeling 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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