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Kumbakonam, 
India
405,885 people lived in Kumbakonam in 2025. It is the 1393rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 223rd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Kumbakonam is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kumbakonam grew
Where Kumbakonam had 10 people in 1975, it had 25.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 428,682 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Kumbakonam through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kumbakonam in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kumbakonam 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, Kumbakonam covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.1 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 86%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Kumbakonam in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1389 Dhamar Yemen406,929
- 1390 Bhind406,712
- 1391 Resistencia Argentina406,337
- 1392 Abakaliki Nigeria406,105
- 1393 Kumbakonam405,885
- 1394 Daqing China405,480
- 1395 Jiashan China405,454
- 1396 Hebron Palestine405,079
- 1397 North Richland Hills United States404,680
In India, 2025
- 1371 Bharuch411,095
- 1385 Waidhan408,489
- 1388 Jalna406,973
- 1390 Bhind406,712
- 1393 Kumbakonam405,885
- 1403 Tumakuru403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur402,987
- 1406 Palakkad401,965
- 1411 Bhiwadi401,290
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kumbakonam 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 Kumbakonam 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