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Haridwar, 
India
717,990 people lived in Haridwar in 2025. It is the 748th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 117th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Haridwar grew
Count 10 people in Haridwar in 1975 and the same count gives 36.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 901,239 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Haridwar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Haridwar 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). Haridwar 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, Haridwar covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.3 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Haridwar in 2025 — about 1 in 2,041.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 744 Yingxia China719,432
- 745 Gulin China718,364
- 746 Patiala718,308
- 747 Linchuan China718,050
- 748 Haridwar717,990
- 749 Makhachkala Russia717,618
- 750 Iloilo City Philippines717,038
- 751 Jepara Indonesia714,514
- 752 Luena Angola714,289
In India, 2025
- 712 Kalaburagi753,963
- 724 Bhavnagar739,115
- 731 Nellore732,235
- 746 Patiala718,308
- 748 Haridwar717,990
- 756 Mirzapur710,567
- 757 Panipat710,363
- 760 Rasoi703,790
- 774 Shahjahanpur694,580
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Haridwar 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 Haridwar 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