Kakinada, India

For every 10 people in Kakinada in 1975, there were 17.5 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 494,183 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.

How to read this: Kakinada 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.

In 2025, Kakinada covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people have grown by 75%.

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.

Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Kakinada in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.

In the world, 2025

1. 1131 Ife Nigeria492,000
2. 1132 Al-Kut Iraq491,247
3. 1133 Cusco Peru490,968
4. 1134 Quebec Canada490,451
5. 1135 Kakinada488,958
6. 1136 Provo United States488,429
7. 1137 Portsmouth United Kingdom488,385
8. 1138 Bazarati487,581
9. 1139 Dimapur487,500

In India, 2025

1. 1120 Fatehpur494,897
2. 1123 Karnal494,241
3. 1126 Hapur493,837
4. 1128 Hardoi493,665
5. 1135 Kakinada488,958
6. 1138 Bazarati487,581
7. 1139 Dimapur487,500
8. 1144 Cooch Behar484,313
9. 1154 Siuri480,595

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.

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The figures for Kakinada 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 Kakinada 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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