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Kaithal, 
India
265,502 people lived in Kaithal in 2025. It is the 2196th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 355th 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 Kaithal's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kaithal grew
Count 10 people in Kaithal in 1975 and the same count gives 23.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 322,135 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Kaithal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kaithal 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 Kaithal; 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, Kaithal covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.7 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Kaithal in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2188 Bihpur266,585
- 2189 Bijnor266,240
- 2192 Porlamar Venezuela265,905
- 2195 Nazareth Israel265,611
- 2196 Kaithal265,502
- 2197 El Oued Algeria265,408
- 2200 Jining China265,293
- 2203 Nautan264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad264,322
In India, 2025
- 2167 Patahi268,862
- 2170 Chhatarpur268,598
- 2188 Bihpur266,585
- 2189 Bijnor266,240
- 2196 Kaithal265,502
- 2203 Nautan264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad264,322
- 2215 Firozpur263,304
- 2216 Pali263,275
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 Kaithal 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 Kaithal 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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