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Masrakh, 
India
228,857 people lived in Masrakh in 2025. It is the 2567th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 421st largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Masrakh governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Masrakh grew
Count 10 people in Masrakh in 2005 and the same count gives 44.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 426,586 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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
Masrakh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Masrakh 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 Masrakh; 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, Masrakh covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.5 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Masrakh in 2025 — about 1 in 6,250.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2554 Luputa Democratic Republic of the Congo230,128
- 2560 Maymana Afghanistan229,355
- 2564 Cobán Guatemala229,017
- 2566 Mollar Char Bangladesh228,869
- 2567 Masrakh228,857
- 2571 Jega Nigeria228,584
- 2574 Puli Khumri Afghanistan228,271
- 2575 Asmara Eritrea228,270
- 2576 Lalamusa Pakistan228,248
In India, 2025
- 2483 Amarpur236,273
- 2498 Tanda234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara234,318
- 2515 Chakan233,615
- 2567 Masrakh228,857
- 2617 Maharajganj225,197
- 2630 Ramgarh224,417
- 2662 Sahebganj221,858
- 2694 Dhampur219,479
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 Masrakh are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Masrakh 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