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Kadapa, 
India
393,513 people lived in Kadapa in 2025. It is the 1446th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 235th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kadapa grew
Count 10 people in Kadapa in 1975 and the same count gives 29.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 427,184 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Kadapa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kadapa 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 Kadapa; 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, Kadapa covered 40 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.3 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 3 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Kadapa in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1442 Bamenda Cameroon394,155
- 1443 As Samawah Iraq393,865
- 1444 Ezhou China393,658
- 1445 Morena393,553
- 1446 Kadapa393,513
- 1447 Santiago del Estero Argentina393,257
- 1448 Gonder Ethiopia392,767
- 1449 Jiyuan China392,568
- 1450 Motihari392,303
In India, 2025
- 1437 Kanchipuram394,850
- 1438 Sonipat394,583
- 1441 Mahesana394,304
- 1445 Morena393,553
- 1446 Kadapa393,513
- 1450 Motihari392,303
- 1452 Nadiad391,934
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj389,533
- 1483 Eluru383,068
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 Kadapa 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 Kadapa 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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