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Cities · India · 27.1° N, 83.6° E
Maharajganj, 
India
225,197 people lived in Maharajganj (27.1° N, 83.6° E) in 2025. It is the 2617th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 426th 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
Count 10 people in Maharajganj in 1980 and the same count gives 40 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 352,471 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
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: 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 Maharajganj; 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, Maharajganj covered 38 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.1 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Maharajganj in 2025 — about 1 in 6,667.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan Iran225,871
- 2610 Harar Ethiopia225,677
- 2612 Naqamte Ethiopia225,503
- 2615 Al Qusiya Egypt225,243
- 2617 Maharajganj225,197
- 2618 Samundri Pakistan225,170
- 2624 Ile Oluji Nigeria224,781
- 2627 Manfalut Egypt224,667
- 2630 Ramgarh224,417
In India, 2025
- 2498 Tanda234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara234,318
- 2515 Chakan233,615
- 2567 Masrakh228,857
- 2617 Maharajganj225,197
- 2630 Ramgarh224,417
- 2662 Sahebganj221,858
- 2694 Dhampur219,479
- 2752 Baraut214,706
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Maharajganj are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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