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Jalandhar, 
India
1,192,763 people lived in Jalandhar in 2025. It is the 433rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 70th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Jalandhar 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 Jalandhar grew
Count 10 people in Jalandhar in 1975 and the same count gives 17.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Jalandhar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jalandhar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jalandhar 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, Jalandhar covered 144 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 47 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 74%.
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 Jalandhar, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Jalandhar; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 429 Lyon France1,202,985
- 430 Prague Czechia1,197,765
- 431 Calgary Canada1,197,110
- 432 Nizhny Novgorod Russia1,196,944
- 433 Jalandhar1,192,763
- 434 Oran Algeria1,192,410
- 435 Hiroshima Japan1,185,788
- 436 Padang Indonesia1,184,342
- 437 Shymkent Kazakhstan1,184,337
In India, 2025
- 412 Gyanpur1,237,249
- 415 Kota1,232,364
- 421 Dehradun1,219,198
- 426 Begusarai1,210,200
- 433 Jalandhar1,192,763
- 443 Jammu1,154,466
- 450 Bhubaneshwar1,146,434
- 458 Srinagar1,126,638
- 465 Berhampore1,109,144
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 Jalandhar 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 Jalandhar 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