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Khandwa, 
India
394,910 people lived in Khandwa in 2025. It is the 1435th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 230th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Khandwa 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 Khandwa grew
Count 10 people in Khandwa in 1975 and the same count gives 21.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 474,761 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Khandwa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khandwa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Khandwa; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Khandwa covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.7 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Khandwa in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1431 Mit Habib Egypt397,104
- 1432 Dinajpur Bangladesh396,235
- 1433 Parakou Benin395,528
- 1434 Xinxing China395,115
- 1435 Khandwa394,910
- 1436 Colorado Springs United States394,888
- 1437 Kanchipuram394,850
- 1438 Sonipat394,583
- 1439 Pegu Myanmar394,446
In India, 2025
- 1406 Palakkad401,965
- 1411 Bhiwadi401,290
- 1414 Modinagar400,401
- 1421 Pratapgarh398,315
- 1435 Khandwa394,910
- 1437 Kanchipuram394,850
- 1438 Sonipat394,583
- 1441 Mahesana394,304
- 1445 Morena393,553
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Khandwa 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 Khandwa 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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