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Imphal, 
India
824,757 people lived in Imphal in 2025. It is the 636th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 98th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Imphal 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 Imphal grew
For every 10 people in Imphal in 1975, there were 31.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 865,260 people in 2050.
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
Imphal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Imphal 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). Imphal 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, Imphal covered 201 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Imphal, which is 824,757 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 Imphal's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 632 Tirana Albania833,020
- 633 Nsukka Nigeria830,196
- 634 Hodeidah Yemen827,012
- 635 Ibb Yemen826,974
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 637 Baoji China823,847
- 638 Ipoh Malaysia823,097
- 639 Huangshi China821,445
- 640 Vellore820,103
In India, 2025
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 646 Munger814,325
- 656 Udaipur807,617
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 Imphal 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 Imphal 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