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Ichalkaranji, 
India
465,814 people lived in Ichalkaranji in 2025. It is the 1192nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 188th 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 Ichalkaranji grew
For every 10 people in Ichalkaranji in 1975, there were 19.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 491,537 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Ichalkaranji through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ichalkaranji 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). Ichalkaranji 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, Ichalkaranji covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.9 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 2 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Ichalkaranji in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
- 1189 Beilun District China467,912
- 1190 Yangquan China467,148
- 1191 Ryazan Russia466,086
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
- 1193 Jundiaí Brazil465,531
- 1194 Tongxiang China465,450
- 1195 Balia465,399
- 1196 Manado Indonesia464,793
In India, 2025
- 1171 Ghazipur473,824
- 1175 Raebareli472,091
- 1183 Sitapur469,750
- 1186 Kurnool468,997
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
- 1195 Balia465,399
- 1201 Haldwani463,530
- 1208 Purnia461,043
- 1209 Nagercoil460,826
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 Ichalkaranji 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 Ichalkaranji 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