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Khalilabad, 
India
259,783 people lived in Khalilabad in 2025. It is the 2245th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 367th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Khalilabad grew
Where Khalilabad had 10 people in 1975, it had 32 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 343,646 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
Khalilabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khalilabad 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). Khalilabad 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, Khalilabad covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.9 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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 Khalilabad in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2235 Sidi Bel Abbes Algeria261,103
- 2238 The Woodlands United States260,732
- 2243 Salinas [Santa Elena] Ecuador260,161
- 2244 Long Thành Vietnam260,047
- 2245 Khalilabad259,783
- 2246 Deir Ez Zor Syria259,771
- 2247 Hazel Dell United States259,716
- 2248 Jianhu China259,681
- 2249 Paarl South Africa259,665
In India, 2025
- 2221 Palwal262,399
- 2226 Ambur261,614
- 2228 Moirabari261,593
- 2234 Areraj261,142
- 2245 Khalilabad259,783
- 2250 Vidisha259,638
- 2253 Nawada259,262
- 2260 Masaurhi258,274
- 2299 Borigaon253,566
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Khalilabad 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 Khalilabad 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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