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Kurukshetra, 
India
353,119 people lived in Kurukshetra in 2025. It is the 1619th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 260th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kurukshetra 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 Kurukshetra grew
For every 10 people in Kurukshetra in 1975, there were 31.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 428,710 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kurukshetra through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kurukshetra in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kurukshetra 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, Kurukshetra covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.4 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.
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 Kurukshetra in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat Egypt354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis Egypt353,541
- 1617 Haifeng China353,473
- 1618 Oak Ridge United States353,212
- 1619 Kurukshetra353,119
- 1620 Nam Định Vietnam353,044
- 1621 Siem Reap Cambodia352,948
- 1622 Utsunomiya Japan352,816
- 1623 Khurja352,785
In India, 2025
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
- 1600 Korba355,784
- 1603 Satara355,609
- 1604 Dhubri355,592
- 1619 Kurukshetra353,119
- 1623 Khurja352,785
- 1625 Madhubani352,336
- 1628 Karimnagar351,832
- 1633 Purulia350,713
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 Kurukshetra 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 Kurukshetra 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