Kalyan-Dombivli, India

Where Kalyan-Dombivli had 10 people in 1975, it had 40.9 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 3.7 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.

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.

How to read this: Kalyan-Dombivli 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, Kalyan-Dombivli covered 173 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 4.1 times as many.

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 1,000 people in India in 2025, 2 lived in Kalyan-Dombivli, which is 3.2 million people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kalyan-Dombivli's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 152 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso3,206,222
2. 153 Durban South Africa3,177,927
3. 154 Maputo Mozambique3,166,328
4. 155 San Francisco United States3,163,486
5. 156 Kalyan-Dombivli3,163,424
6. 157 Guayaquil Ecuador3,157,825
7. 158 Salvador Brazil3,135,157
8. 159 Gujranwala Pakistan3,121,271
9. 160 Athens Greece3,101,979

In India, 2025

1. 119 Varanasi3,858,863
2. 136 Indore3,476,423
3. 141 Patna3,309,383
4. 147 Nagpur3,257,841
5. 156 Kalyan-Dombivli3,163,424
6. 162 Kollam3,074,562
7. 166 Thiruvananthapuram2,946,119
8. 167 Asansol2,924,741
9. 173 Tamluk2,894,484

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 Kalyan-Dombivli 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 Kalyan-Dombivli 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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