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Khanakul, 
India
325,882 people lived in Khanakul in 2025. It is the 1763rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 288th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Khanakul 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 Khanakul grew
Where Khanakul had 10 people in 2000, it had 41.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 418,911 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Khanakul through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khanakul in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Khanakul 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, Khanakul covered 128 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.5 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Khanakul in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu Malaysia326,615
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón Mexico326,226
- 1761 Port-de-Paix Haiti326,041
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1764 Sanandaj Iran325,425
- 1765 Jiaonan China325,383
- 1766 Canoas Brazil325,022
- 1767 Sumedang Indonesia324,936
In India, 2025
- 1751 Tezpur328,217
- 1752 Puri328,196
- 1758 Bhadohi326,738
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1788 Katni321,522
- 1795 Ranipet320,233
- 1798 Balurghat319,934
- 1800 Raichur319,647
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 Khanakul are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Khanakul 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