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Kannauj, 
India
242,353 people lived in Kannauj in 2025. It is the 2417th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 395th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Kannauj 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 Kannauj grew
For every 10 people in Kannauj in 1975, there were 14.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 314,831 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kannauj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kannauj in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kannauj 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.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kannauj covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.8 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people have fallen by 15%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Kannauj in 2025 — about 1 in 5,882.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2410 Kambove Democratic Republic of the Congo242,939
- 2412 Poltava Ukraine242,753
- 2413 Gayara Iraq242,690
- 2414 Khajauli242,567
- 2417 Kannauj242,353
- 2419 Monclova Mexico242,237
- 2421 Boma Democratic Republic of the Congo242,042
- 2427 Attock Pakistan241,714
- 2430 Tambacounda Senegal241,254
In India, 2025
- 2354 Naugarh248,273
- 2377 Dhupguri245,107
- 2400 Sawai Madhopur243,561
- 2414 Khajauli242,567
- 2417 Kannauj242,353
- 2437 Payyanur240,715
- 2448 Dohrighat239,251
- 2465 Dhaka237,385
- 2470 Lakhnaur237,133
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 Kannauj 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 Kannauj 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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries