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Guntur, 
India
862,068 people lived in Guntur in 2025. It is the 606th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 92nd 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 Guntur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Guntur grew
Count 10 people in Guntur in 1975 and the same count gives 14.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 854,282 people in 2050.
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
Guntur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guntur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Guntur is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Guntur covered 82 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 43%.
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 Guntur, which is 862,068 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 Guntur; 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
- 602 Agadir Morocco869,990
- 603 Katowice Poland865,777
- 604 Bata Equatorial Guinea863,383
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 607 Valparaíso Chile861,145
- 608 Aracaju Brazil859,845
- 609 Xinxiang China858,975
- 610 Kavar Iran857,280
In India, 2025
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
- 586 Bikaner882,222
- 594 Firozabad878,282
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 627 Colachel837,735
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 Guntur 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 Guntur 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