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Guwahati, 
India
1,314,019 people lived in Guwahati in 2025. It is the 392nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 62nd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Guwahati 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 Guwahati grew
For every 10 people in Guwahati in 1975, there were 55.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Guwahati through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Guwahati 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). Guwahati 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, Guwahati covered 191 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 47 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 5.5 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 Guwahati, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Guwahati's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 388 Anshan China1,322,386
- 389 Managua Nicaragua1,315,865
- 390 Yichang China1,314,779
- 391 Asunción Paraguay1,314,663
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 393 Tabriz Iran1,309,004
- 394 Kharkiv Ukraine1,308,892
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 396 Klipgat South Africa1,300,816
In India, 2025
- 374 Vijayawada1,351,098
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 401 Saharanpur1,275,279
- 408 Tiruppur1,242,837
- 412 Gyanpur1,237,249
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 Guwahati 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 Guwahati 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