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Mahesana, 
India
394,304 people lived in Mahesana in 2025. It is the 1441st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 233rd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Mahesana is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mahesana grew
Count 10 people in Mahesana in 1975 and the same count gives 20.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 456,873 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Mahesana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mahesana 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). Mahesana 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, Mahesana covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.1 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Mahesana in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1437 Kanchipuram394,850
- 1438 Sonipat394,583
- 1439 Pegu Myanmar394,446
- 1440 Danzhou City China394,343
- 1441 Mahesana394,304
- 1442 Bamenda Cameroon394,155
- 1443 As Samawah Iraq393,865
- 1444 Ezhou China393,658
- 1445 Morena393,553
In India, 2025
- 1421 Pratapgarh398,315
- 1435 Khandwa394,910
- 1437 Kanchipuram394,850
- 1438 Sonipat394,583
- 1441 Mahesana394,304
- 1445 Morena393,553
- 1446 Kadapa393,513
- 1450 Motihari392,303
- 1452 Nadiad391,934
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 Mahesana 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 Mahesana 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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