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Cities · India · 26.2° N, 84.5° E
Maharajganj, 
India
1,601,258 people lived in Maharajganj (26.2° N, 84.5° E) in 2025. It is the 307th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 46th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Maharajganj is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maharajganj grew
Where Maharajganj had 10 people in 1975, it had 284 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Maharajganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maharajganj 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). Maharajganj 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, Maharajganj covered 644 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Maharajganj, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Maharajganj's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 303 Gaziantep Türkiye1,613,357
- 304 Budapest Hungary1,609,260
- 305 Warri Nigeria1,607,702
- 306 Tegucigalpa Honduras1,607,033
- 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
- 308 Ulaanbaatar Mongolia1,596,556
- 309 Havana Cuba1,593,580
- 310 Hargeisa Somalia1,593,542
- 311 Ta'izz Yemen1,586,739
In India, 2025
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot1,581,235
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
- 321 Gwalior1,554,246
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 Maharajganj 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 Maharajganj 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