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Kharagpur, 
India
776,133 people lived in Kharagpur in 2025. It is the 685th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 107th 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 Kharagpur grew
For every 10 people in Kharagpur in 1975, there were 18.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 848,040 people in 2050.
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
Kharagpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kharagpur 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 Kharagpur; 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, Kharagpur covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 86%.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Kharagpur, which is 776,133 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Kharagpur. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 681 Muscat Oman780,545
- 682 Pingdingshan China779,154
- 683 Rourkela776,631
- 684 Bahawalpur Pakistan776,611
- 685 Kharagpur776,133
- 686 Yueyang China775,434
- 687 Changshu China774,010
- 688 Evaton South Africa773,229
- 689 Amravati771,610
In India, 2025
- 660 Belagavi800,130
- 661 Bilaspur799,772
- 680 Jalgaon781,486
- 683 Rourkela776,631
- 685 Kharagpur776,133
- 689 Amravati771,610
- 692 Cape Town770,260
- 693 Nanded770,215
- 699 Sangli761,451
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 Kharagpur 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 Kharagpur 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