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Madhubani, 
India
352,336 people lived in Madhubani in 2025. It is the 1625th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 262nd 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 Madhubani's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Madhubani grew
Count 10 people in Madhubani in 1975 and the same count gives 33 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 505,702 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Madhubani through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Madhubani 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 Madhubani; 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, Madhubani covered 42 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.9 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 Madhubani in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1621 Siem Reap Cambodia352,948
- 1622 Utsunomiya Japan352,816
- 1623 Khurja352,785
- 1624 Skopje North Macedonia352,624
- 1625 Madhubani352,336
- 1626 Temuco Chile352,200
- 1627 Praia Grande Brazil352,067
- 1628 Karimnagar351,832
- 1629 Longueuil Canada351,819
In India, 2025
- 1603 Satara355,609
- 1604 Dhubri355,592
- 1619 Kurukshetra353,119
- 1623 Khurja352,785
- 1625 Madhubani352,336
- 1628 Karimnagar351,832
- 1633 Purulia350,713
- 1634 Dahod350,660
- 1639 Simri348,804
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 Madhubani 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 Madhubani 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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