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Dindigul, 
India
438,809 people lived in Dindigul in 2025. It is the 1270th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 202nd 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 Dindigul's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dindigul grew
Count 10 people in Dindigul in 1975 and the same count gives 33.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 500,438 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Dindigul through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dindigul 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 Dindigul; 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, Dindigul covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 72%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Dindigul in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1266 Manizales Colombia440,407
- 1267 Gemena Democratic Republic of the Congo440,327
- 1268 Maragha Egypt440,011
- 1269 Tallinn Estonia439,526
- 1270 Dindigul438,809
- 1271 Quelimane Mozambique438,554
- 1272 Buenaventura Colombia438,063
- 1273 Tây Ninh Vietnam437,816
- 1274 Ardabil Iran437,757
In India, 2025
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1270 Dindigul438,809
- 1279 Cuddalore436,495
- 1285 Sambhal435,760
- 1288 Bhilwara434,406
- 1294 Jhusi431,880
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 Dindigul 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 Dindigul 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