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Kotwali, 
India
839,900 people lived in Kotwali in 2025. It is the 624th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 95th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kotwali governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kotwali grew
Where Kotwali had 10 people in 1975, it had 54.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Kotwali through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kotwali in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kotwali 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, Kotwali covered 132 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.5 km² of it. That is 3 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 51%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Kotwali, which is 839,900 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kotwali's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 620 Faiyum Egypt846,831
- 621 Maracay Venezuela845,329
- 622 Umuahia Nigeria843,245
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 625 Cuernavaca Mexico839,485
- 626 Fuyang China839,236
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
In India, 2025
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 640 Vellore820,103
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 Kotwali 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 Kotwali 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