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Indore, 
India
3,476,423 people lived in Indore in 2025. It is the 136th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Indore governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Indore grew
For every 10 people in Indore in 1975, there were 33.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 4.0 million people in 2050.
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
Indore through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Indore in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Indore 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, Indore covered 276 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 63 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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, 2 lived in Indore, which is 3.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Indore. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 132 Berlin Germany3,560,908
- 133 Savar Bangladesh3,557,381
- 134 Peshawar Pakistan3,554,423
- 135 Lusaka Zambia3,510,723
- 136 Indore3,476,423
- 137 Jinan China3,472,980
- 138 Changsha China3,457,508
- 139 Medellín Colombia3,350,384
- 140 Changchun China3,349,934
In India, 2025
- 82 Lucknow5,052,444
- 97 Kanpur4,329,973
- 110 Jaipur4,071,754
- 119 Varanasi3,858,863
- 136 Indore3,476,423
- 141 Patna3,309,383
- 147 Nagpur3,257,841
- 156 Kalyan-Dombivli3,163,424
- 162 Kollam3,074,562
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 Indore 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 Indore 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