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Korba, 
India
355,784 people lived in Korba in 2025. It is the 1600th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 257th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Korba 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 Korba grew
Where Korba had 10 people in 1975, it had 22.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 414,465 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Korba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Korba 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). Korba 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, Korba covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.6 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Korba in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1596 Vladikavkaz Russia356,422
- 1597 Memphis United States356,215
- 1598 Tula Russia356,025
- 1599 Qazvin Iran355,865
- 1600 Korba355,784
- 1601 Montes Claros Brazil355,651
- 1602 Vinh Vietnam355,643
- 1603 Satara355,609
- 1604 Dhubri355,592
In India, 2025
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1570 Yavatmal363,908
- 1589 Pilibhit358,059
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
- 1600 Korba355,784
- 1603 Satara355,609
- 1604 Dhubri355,592
- 1619 Kurukshetra353,119
- 1623 Khurja352,785
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 Korba 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 Korba 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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