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Eluru, 
India
383,068 people lived in Eluru in 2025. It is the 1483rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 239th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Eluru governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Eluru grew
Count 10 people in Eluru in 1975 and the same count gives 14.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 371,155 people in 2050.
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
Eluru through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Eluru 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 Eluru; 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, Eluru covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.9 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 48%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Eluru in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1479 Muzaffargarh Pakistan384,838
- 1480 Haicheng China383,983
- 1481 Caxias do Sul Brazil383,774
- 1482 Tongling China383,739
- 1483 Eluru383,068
- 1484 Villavicencio Colombia383,028
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
- 1487 Pohang-si South Korea382,368
In India, 2025
- 1446 Kadapa393,513
- 1450 Motihari392,303
- 1452 Nadiad391,934
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj389,533
- 1483 Eluru383,068
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
- 1503 Kralpora377,602
- 1509 Tirunelveli376,005
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 Eluru 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 Eluru 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