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Dhule, 
India
643,777 people lived in Dhule in 2025. It is the 838th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 131st largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Dhule 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 Dhule grew
Count 10 people in Dhule in 1975 and the same count gives 20.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 774,383 people in 2050.
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
Dhule through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dhule 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 Dhule; 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, Dhule covered 58 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 2 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Dhule in 2025 — about 1 in 2,273.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 834 Mazar i sharif Afghanistan651,287
- 835 Nottingham United Kingdom649,610
- 836 Amarah Iraq645,612
- 837 Nuremberg Germany644,169
- 838 Dhule643,777
- 839 Toulouse France642,224
- 840 Jalpaiguri642,158
- 841 Bauchi Nigeria642,082
- 842 Rangpur Bangladesh641,327
In India, 2025
- 816 Anand664,789
- 821 Kannur662,128
- 822 Jhansi662,059
- 827 Siliguri658,183
- 838 Dhule643,777
- 840 Jalpaiguri642,158
- 858 Ajmer631,176
- 872 Malegaon618,133
- 874 Farrukhabad615,831
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Dhule 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 Dhule 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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