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Haldwani, 
India
463,530 people lived in Haldwani in 2025. It is the 1201st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 190th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Haldwani 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 Haldwani grew
For every 10 people in Haldwani in 1975, there were 33.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 538,028 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Haldwani through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Haldwani in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Haldwani 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, Haldwani covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 12.5 times its size, and its people are 3.3 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Haldwani in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1197 Shanwei China464,738
- 1198 San Juan Argentina464,466
- 1199 Meizhou China464,343
- 1200 Bijie China463,837
- 1201 Haldwani463,530
- 1202 West Valley City United States463,325
- 1203 Yuhu China462,605
- 1204 Yanji China461,800
- 1205 Morogoro Tanzania461,634
In India, 2025
- 1183 Sitapur469,750
- 1186 Kurnool468,997
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
- 1195 Balia465,399
- 1201 Haldwani463,530
- 1208 Purnia461,043
- 1209 Nagercoil460,826
- 1218 Saharsa456,879
- 1221 Raiganj456,239
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 Haldwani 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 Haldwani 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 →
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