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Mangaluru, 
India
993,566 people lived in Mangaluru in 2025. It is the 516th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 81st largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Mangaluru's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mangaluru grew
For every 10 people in Mangaluru in 1975, there were 23.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Mangaluru through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mangaluru 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 Mangaluru; 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, Mangaluru covered 231 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 43 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Mangaluru, which is 993,566 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Mangaluru. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 512 Jinhua China998,519
- 513 Puducherry998,290
- 514 Mataram Indonesia997,132
- 515 Nara Japan993,952
- 516 Mangaluru993,566
- 517 San Luis Potosí Mexico992,648
- 518 Shiyan China992,165
- 519 Gaya991,081
- 520 Shunqing China990,466
In India, 2025
- 492 Barharia1,038,927
- 493 Thalassery1,038,647
- 511 Malda1,001,322
- 513 Puducherry998,290
- 516 Mangaluru993,566
- 519 Gaya991,081
- 539 Dharwad965,667
- 546 Faizabad952,074
- 547 Darbhanga950,875
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 Mangaluru 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 Mangaluru 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