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Katni, 
India
321,522 people lived in Katni in 2025. It is the 1788th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 289th 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 Katni's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Katni grew
For every 10 people in Katni in 1975, there were 27.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 377,843 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Katni through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Katni in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: India and its 2,054 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New Delhi). Katni is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Katni covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 Katni in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1784 Mulongo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,881
- 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
- 1786 Shariatpur Bangladesh321,804
- 1787 Timofeevka Russia321,680
- 1788 Katni321,522
- 1789 Bafoussam Cameroon321,489
- 1790 Chuzhou China321,424
- 1791 Ilebo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,392
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi Vietnam320,907
In India, 2025
- 1752 Puri328,196
- 1758 Bhadohi326,738
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1788 Katni321,522
- 1795 Ranipet320,233
- 1798 Balurghat319,934
- 1800 Raichur319,647
- 1811 Bhusawal317,085
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 Katni 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 Katni 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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