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Kurnool, 
India
468,997 people lived in Kurnool in 2025. It is the 1186th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 187th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Kurnool is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kurnool grew
Count 10 people in Kurnool in 1975 and the same count gives 20.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 556,310 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Kurnool through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kurnool 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). Kurnool 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, Kurnool covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.8 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 2.1 times as many.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Kurnool in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1182 Cox's Bazar Bangladesh470,100
- 1183 Sitapur469,750
- 1184 Lüliang China469,647
- 1185 Tétouan Morocco469,642
- 1186 Kurnool468,997
- 1187 Changge China468,159
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
- 1189 Beilun District China467,912
- 1190 Yangquan China467,148
In India, 2025
- 1166 Etawah475,213
- 1171 Ghazipur473,824
- 1175 Raebareli472,091
- 1183 Sitapur469,750
- 1186 Kurnool468,997
- 1192 Ichalkaranji465,814
- 1195 Balia465,399
- 1201 Haldwani463,530
- 1208 Purnia461,043
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 Kurnool 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 Kurnool 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