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Faizabad, 
India
952,074 people lived in Faizabad in 2025. It is the 546th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 84th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Faizabad grew
For every 10 people in Faizabad in 1975, there were 19.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Faizabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Faizabad 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 Faizabad; 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, Faizabad covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Faizabad, which is 952,074 people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Faizabad; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 542 Konya Türkiye959,484
- 543 Samara Russia955,599
- 544 Mwanza Tanzania954,104
- 545 Dagupan [Lingayen] Philippines953,092
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 548 Nyala Sudan950,803
- 549 Trujillo Peru949,018
- 550 Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo948,948
In India, 2025
- 513 Puducherry998,290
- 516 Mangaluru993,566
- 519 Gaya991,081
- 539 Dharwad965,667
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
- 579 Erode892,758
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
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 Faizabad 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 Faizabad 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