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Krishnanagar, 
India
948,788 people lived in Krishnanagar in 2025. It is the 551st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 86th largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Krishnanagar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Krishnanagar grew
For every 10 people in Krishnanagar in 1975, there were 16.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Krishnanagar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Krishnanagar 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). Krishnanagar 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, Krishnanagar covered 64 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.0 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 69%.
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 Krishnanagar, which is 948,788 people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Krishnanagar; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 548 Nyala Sudan950,803
- 549 Trujillo Peru949,018
- 550 Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo948,948
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
- 552 Namangan Uzbekistan947,465
- 553 Linfen China945,174
- 554 Homs Syria940,460
- 555 Bucaramanga Colombia939,291
In India, 2025
- 519 Gaya991,081
- 539 Dharwad965,667
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
- 551 Krishnanagar948,788
- 579 Erode892,758
- 582 Sitamarhi889,696
- 586 Bikaner882,222
- 594 Firozabad878,282
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 Krishnanagar 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 Krishnanagar 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