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Dighwara, 
India
2,469,443 people lived in Dighwara in 2025. It is the 202nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th 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 Dighwara's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dighwara grew
Where Dighwara had 10 people in 1985, it had 458.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 3.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Dighwara through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dighwara 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). Dighwara 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, Dighwara covered 965 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 46 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 19.2 times its size, and its people are 13.9 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, 2 lived in Dighwara, which is 2.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Dighwara. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 198 Cotonou Benin2,506,489
- 199 Bhopal2,487,205
- 200 Curitiba Brazil2,475,352
- 201 Tunis Tunisia2,473,428
- 202 Dighwara2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh2,437,733
- 204 Lomé Togo2,415,011
- 205 Ponnani2,409,567
- 206 Coimbatore2,382,988
In India, 2025
- 167 Asansol2,924,741
- 173 Tamluk2,894,484
- 180 Agra2,786,762
- 199 Bhopal2,487,205
- 202 Dighwara2,469,443
- 203 Chandigarh2,437,733
- 205 Ponnani2,409,567
- 206 Coimbatore2,382,988
- 210 Prayagraj2,347,869
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 Dighwara are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Dighwara 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