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Madhepura, 
India
309,065 people lived in Madhepura in 2025. It is the 1863rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 304th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Madhepura grew
For every 10 people in Madhepura in 1975, there were 34.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 486,713 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Madhepura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Madhepura in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Madhepura; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Madhepura covered 79 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.4 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 Madhepura in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1859 Kindu Democratic Republic of the Congo309,727
- 1860 Sandwip Bangladesh309,439
- 1861 Moshi Tanzania309,202
- 1862 Xichang China309,170
- 1863 Madhepura309,065
- 1864 Nagasaki Japan308,986
- 1865 Cangnan China308,925
- 1866 Qoqand Uzbekistan308,393
- 1867 Jacobabad Pakistan308,137
In India, 2025
- 1837 Bidar312,534
- 1839 Vizianagaram312,315
- 1841 Simri Bakhtiarpur311,434
- 1856 Beed310,278
- 1863 Madhepura309,065
- 1873 Damoh307,218
- 1878 Bankura306,650
- 1883 Benipur304,786
- 1887 Barmer304,268
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 Madhepura 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 Madhepura 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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