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Dewas, 
India
370,472 people lived in Dewas in 2025. It is the 1541st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 248th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Dewas 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 Dewas grew
Count 10 people in Dewas in 1975 and the same count gives 23.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 452,177 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Dewas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dewas 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 Dewas; 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, Dewas covered 42 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.5 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
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 Dewas in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1537 Pasto Colombia371,637
- 1538 Taizhou China371,055
- 1539 Zanjan Iran370,993
- 1540 Muridke Pakistan370,563
- 1541 Dewas370,472
- 1542 Al-Manshah Egypt370,283
- 1543 Daura Nigeria369,916
- 1544 Qarchak Iran369,782
- 1545 Xuancheng China369,529
In India, 2025
- 1514 Viluppuram375,616
- 1523 Debandi374,423
- 1528 Junagadh373,265
- 1530 Khagaria372,707
- 1541 Dewas370,472
- 1548 Dehri368,750
- 1550 Thoothukudi368,221
- 1554 Godhra367,633
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
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 Dewas 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 Dewas 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