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Lakhimpur, 
India
501,540 people lived in Lakhimpur in 2025. It is the 1103rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 172nd 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 Lakhimpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lakhimpur grew
Where Lakhimpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 17.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 610,262 people in 2050.
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
Lakhimpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lakhimpur 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). Lakhimpur 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, Lakhimpur covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.2 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 75%.
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 Lakhimpur in 2025 — about 1 in 2,941.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1099 Nha Trang Vietnam503,051
- 1100 Anqing China503,036
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez Mexico502,534
- 1102 Barnaul Russia502,491
- 1103 Lakhimpur501,540
- 1104 Dairut Egypt501,258
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode Nigeria500,036
- 1106 Anshun China499,794
- 1107 Bahir Dar Ethiopia498,735
In India, 2025
- 1067 Bhore518,289
- 1070 Satna517,402
- 1084 Mau512,415
- 1086 Roorkee511,291
- 1103 Lakhimpur501,540
- 1120 Fatehpur494,897
- 1123 Karnal494,241
- 1126 Hapur493,837
- 1128 Hardoi493,665
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 Lakhimpur 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 Lakhimpur 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 →
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