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Maheshkhunt, 
India
289,419 people lived in Maheshkhunt in 2025. It is the 2008th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 326th 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 Maheshkhunt grew
For every 10 people in Maheshkhunt in 1990, there were 57.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 390,391 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, 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
Maheshkhunt through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maheshkhunt 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). Maheshkhunt 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, Maheshkhunt covered 46 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.5 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 84%, and its people have grown by 91%.
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 Maheshkhunt in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2001 Baicheng China290,420
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2003 Taloqan Afghanistan290,028
- 2007 Okrika Nigeria289,429
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2010 Qamishli Syria289,200
- 2011 Tacoma United States289,128
- 2012 Kombolcha Ethiopia288,941
In India, 2025
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
- 2021 Bhiwani288,360
- 2033 Jianpur286,148
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 Maheshkhunt are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Maheshkhunt 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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