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Hyderabad, 
India
9,190,795 people lived in Hyderabad in 2025. It is the 37th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th 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 Hyderabad grew
For every 10 people in Hyderabad in 1975, there were 32.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 9.5 million people in 2050. It passed five million 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
Hyderabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hyderabad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Hyderabad; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Hyderabad covered 889 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 243 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 3.4 times its size, and its people are 3.3 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 6 lived in Hyderabad, which is 9.2 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 Hyderabad's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 33 London United Kingdom10,416,420
- 34 Hajipur9,941,510
- 35 Rio de Janeiro Brazil9,500,336
- 36 Paris France9,381,921
- 37 Hyderabad9,190,795
- 38 Tehran Iran9,174,964
- 39 Taipei Taiwan9,136,792
- 40 Bandung Indonesia8,909,104
- 41 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia8,443,731
In India, 2025
- 12 Mumbai20,203,056
- 24 Bengaluru13,187,098
- 29 Chennai11,153,205
- 34 Hajipur9,941,510
- 37 Hyderabad9,190,795
- 44 Ahmedabad7,632,408
- 53 Surat6,908,925
- 55 Pune6,817,951
- 66 Kozhikode6,123,872
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 Hyderabad 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 Hyderabad 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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