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Malegaon, 
India
618,133 people lived in Malegaon in 2025. It is the 872nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 134th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Malegaon 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 Malegaon grew
For every 10 people in Malegaon in 1975, there were 16.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 722,400 people in 2050.
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
Malegaon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Malegaon in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Malegaon is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Malegaon covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 61%.
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 Malegaon in 2025 — about 1 in 2,381.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 868 Chiclayo Peru620,622
- 869 Bannu Pakistan620,328
- 870 Hengshui China618,465
- 871 Larkana Pakistan618,408
- 872 Malegaon618,133
- 873 West Palm Beach United States617,035
- 874 Farrukhabad615,831
- 875 Bristol United Kingdom615,703
- 876 Ambala615,565
In India, 2025
- 827 Siliguri658,183
- 838 Dhule643,777
- 840 Jalpaiguri642,158
- 858 Ajmer631,176
- 872 Malegaon618,133
- 874 Farrukhabad615,831
- 876 Ambala615,565
- 885 Rajmahal612,055
- 895 Bihar Sharif607,401
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 Malegaon 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 Malegaon 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