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Mathura, 
India
566,188 people lived in Mathura in 2025. It is the 968th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 150th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Mathura 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 Mathura grew
For every 10 people in Mathura in 1975, there were 32.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 682,563 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Mathura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mathura in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mathura 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, Mathura covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Mathura in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 964 Suez Egypt567,866
- 965 Norfolk United States567,473
- 966 Zaporizhzhia Ukraine566,844
- 967 Kenitra Morocco566,802
- 968 Mathura566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş Türkiye565,732
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
In India, 2025
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 958 Alwar571,972
- 968 Mathura566,188
- 975 Sultanpur562,032
- 980 Chhapra559,249
- 981 Davanagere559,117
- 984 Kalyanpur557,803
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 Mathura 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 Mathura 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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