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Handia, 
India
176,779 people lived in Handia in 2025. It is the 3415th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 563rd largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Handia 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 Handia grew
Count 10 people in Handia in 2000 and the same count gives 34.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 411,515 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Handia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Handia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Handia 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, Handia covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 51%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Handia in 2025 — about 1 in 8,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3375 Nouadhibou Mauritania179,362
- 3383 Bahubal Bangladesh178,981
- 3400 Oghi Pakistan177,887
- 3406 Dearborn Heights United States177,423
- 3415 Handia176,779
- 3417 Guzarah Afghanistan176,657
- 3418 Lwambo Democratic Republic of the Congo176,648
- 3422 Nkongsamba Cameroon176,511
- 3423 Madhabpur Bangladesh176,480
In India, 2025
- 2948 Supaul202,024
- 2985 Gamharia200,505
- 3217 Domariaganj187,658
- 3247 Meja Road186,137
- 3415 Handia176,779
- 3428 Islampur176,380
- 3871 Shahabad156,497
- 4071 Bairgachhi148,986
- 4370 Haidarganj139,637
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 Handia are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Handia 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