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Durg, 
India
1,393,235 people lived in Durg in 2025. It is the 365th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 56th 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 Durg's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Durg grew
For every 10 people in Durg in 1975, there were 48.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.6 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
Durg through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Durg 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 Durg; 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, Durg covered 187 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 37 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 4.9 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Durg, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Durg. 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
- 361 Niamey Niger1,401,149
- 362 Liuzhou China1,400,880
- 363 Mesa United States1,398,369
- 364 Portland United States1,397,788
- 365 Durg1,393,235
- 366 Valencia Spain1,390,045
- 367 Aboh Nigeria1,374,320
- 368 Abuja Nigeria1,373,722
- 369 Thrissur1,371,675
In India, 2025
- 330 Gorakhpur1,519,206
- 332 Jodhpur1,515,910
- 342 Moradabad1,484,611
- 345 Raipur1,478,688
- 365 Durg1,393,235
- 369 Thrissur1,371,675
- 374 Vijayawada1,351,098
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
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 Durg 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 Durg 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