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Dharwad, 
India
965,667 people lived in Dharwad in 2025. It is the 539th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 83rd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Dharwad is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dharwad grew
Where Dharwad had 10 people in 1975, it had 24.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Dharwad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dharwad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dharwad 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, Dharwad covered 56 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.1 km² of it. That is 8 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Dharwad, which is 965,667 people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Dharwad; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 535 Duhok Iraq969,701
- 536 Xiangyang China969,011
- 537 Fushan China968,359
- 538 Zanzibar City Tanzania966,642
- 539 Dharwad965,667
- 540 Lilongwe Malawi961,399
- 541 San Miguel de Tucumán Argentina959,565
- 542 Konya Türkiye959,484
- 543 Samara Russia955,599
In India, 2025
- 511 Malda1,001,322
- 513 Puducherry998,290
- 516 Mangaluru993,566
- 519 Gaya991,081
- 539 Dharwad965,667
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
- 579 Erode892,758
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 Dharwad 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 Dharwad 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