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Dhulian, 
India
1,699,325 people lived in Dhulian in 2025. It is the 287th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 43rd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Dhulian 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 Dhulian grew
For every 10 people in Dhulian in 1975, there were 77.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.9 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Dhulian through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dhulian 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). Dhulian 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, Dhulian covered 301 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 20.8 times its size, and its people are 7.8 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 Dhulian, which is 1.7 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Dhulian's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 284 Luoyang China1,727,744
- 285 El Mansura Egypt1,712,781
- 286 Vancouver Canada1,707,865
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 288 Johor Bahru Malaysia1,695,838
- 289 Mecca Saudi Arabia1,692,152
- 290 San Antonio United States1,686,163
- 291 Nantong China1,684,417
In India, 2025
- 253 Jamshedpur1,956,840
- 264 Bibhutpur1,904,411
- 274 Ranchi1,819,944
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
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 Dhulian 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 Dhulian 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