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Ghazipur, 
India
473,824 people lived in Ghazipur in 2025. It is the 1171st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 184th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Ghazipur is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ghazipur grew
Count 10 people in Ghazipur in 1975 and the same count gives 35.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 771,203 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Ghazipur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ghazipur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: India and its 2,054 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New Delhi). Ghazipur is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ghazipur covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.5 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 7.7 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Ghazipur in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1167 Gusau Nigeria475,004
- 1168 Annaba Algeria474,367
- 1169 Jinzhong China473,959
- 1170 Oshogbo Nigeria473,929
- 1171 Ghazipur473,824
- 1172 Maringá Brazil473,708
- 1173 Palma de Mallorca Spain473,499
- 1174 La Serena Chile473,325
- 1175 Raebareli472,091
In India, 2025
- 1144 Cooch Behar484,313
- 1154 Siuri480,595
- 1162 Gonda477,697
- 1166 Etawah475,213
- 1171 Ghazipur473,824
- 1175 Raebareli472,091
- 1183 Sitapur469,750
- 1186 Kurnool468,997
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
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 Ghazipur 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 Ghazipur 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