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Kolhapur, 
India
819,671 people lived in Kolhapur in 2025. It is the 641st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 100th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kolhapur governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kolhapur grew
Where Kolhapur had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 858,562 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
Kolhapur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kolhapur 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 Kolhapur; 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, Kolhapur covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Kolhapur, which is 819,671 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Kolhapur. 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
- 637 Baoji China823,847
- 638 Ipoh Malaysia823,097
- 639 Huangshi China821,445
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 642 Porto-Novo Benin818,617
- 643 Okayama Japan817,266
- 644 Qom Iran815,416
- 645 Zakho Iraq814,526
In India, 2025
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 646 Munger814,325
- 656 Udaipur807,617
- 660 Belagavi800,130
- 661 Bilaspur799,772
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 Kolhapur 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 Kolhapur 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