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Jaunpur, 
India
580,893 people lived in Jaunpur in 2025. It is the 946th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 147th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Jaunpur is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jaunpur grew
Count 10 people in Jaunpur in 1975 and the same count gives 12.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 749,752 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
Jaunpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jaunpur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Jaunpur; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Jaunpur covered 50 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 24%.
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 Jaunpur in 2025 — about 1 in 2,500.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 942 Lodz Poland582,659
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 944 Ad Da'ein Sudan581,730
- 945 Nimule South Sudan581,444
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico580,878
- 948 Rasht Iran579,481
- 949 Damanhur Egypt579,215
- 950 Jashore Bangladesh578,026
In India, 2025
- 929 Ballari587,340
- 930 Deoria586,987
- 938 Ujjain583,405
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 958 Alwar571,972
- 968 Mathura566,188
- 975 Sultanpur562,032
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 Jaunpur 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 Jaunpur 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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