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Jalpaiguri, 
India
642,158 people lived in Jalpaiguri in 2025. It is the 840th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 132nd largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Jalpaiguri's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jalpaiguri grew
Count 10 people in Jalpaiguri in 1975 and the same count gives 16.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 791,216 people in 2050.
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
Jalpaiguri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jalpaiguri 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). Jalpaiguri 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, Jalpaiguri covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.5 km² of it. That is 9 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people have grown by 40%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Jalpaiguri in 2025 — about 1 in 2,273.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 836 Amarah Iraq645,612
- 837 Nuremberg Germany644,169
- 838 Dhule643,777
- 839 Toulouse France642,224
- 840 Jalpaiguri642,158
- 841 Bauchi Nigeria642,082
- 842 Rangpur Bangladesh641,327
- 843 Kumamoto Japan641,185
- 844 Magelang Indonesia640,707
In India, 2025
- 821 Kannur662,128
- 822 Jhansi662,059
- 827 Siliguri658,183
- 838 Dhule643,777
- 840 Jalpaiguri642,158
- 858 Ajmer631,176
- 872 Malegaon618,133
- 874 Farrukhabad615,831
- 876 Ambala615,565
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Jalpaiguri 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 Jalpaiguri 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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