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Dimapur, 
India
487,500 people lived in Dimapur in 2025. It is the 1139th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 179th 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 Dimapur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dimapur grew
Count 10 people in Dimapur in 1975 and the same count gives 17.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 520,447 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
Dimapur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dimapur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dimapur 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, Dimapur covered 88 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 33 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 78%.
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 Dimapur in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1135 Kakinada488,958
- 1136 Provo United States488,429
- 1137 Portsmouth United Kingdom488,385
- 1138 Bazarati487,581
- 1139 Dimapur487,500
- 1140 Timerein Sudan486,586
- 1141 Yazd Iran485,381
- 1142 Enshi China485,222
- 1143 Haifa Israel484,770
In India, 2025
- 1126 Hapur493,837
- 1128 Hardoi493,665
- 1135 Kakinada488,958
- 1138 Bazarati487,581
- 1139 Dimapur487,500
- 1144 Cooch Behar484,313
- 1154 Siuri480,595
- 1162 Gonda477,697
- 1166 Etawah475,213
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 Dimapur 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 Dimapur 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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