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Habra, 
India
290,311 people lived in Habra in 2025. It is the 2002nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 325th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Habra 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 Habra grew
Count 10 people in Habra in 1975 and the same count gives 17.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 317,394 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Habra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Habra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Habra 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, Habra covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.8 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 59%.
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 Habra in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1997 Kursk Russia291,098
- 1998 Euclid United States290,669
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2001 Baicheng China290,420
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2003 Taloqan Afghanistan290,028
- 2007 Okrika Nigeria289,429
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
In India, 2025
- 1967 Wardha295,117
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
- 2021 Bhiwani288,360
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 Habra 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 Habra 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