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Mau, 
India
512,415 people lived in Mau in 2025. It is the 1084th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 170th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Mau 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 Mau grew
Count 10 people in Mau in 1975 and the same count gives 17.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 666,404 people in 2050.
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
Mau through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mau 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). Mau 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, Mau covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 74%.
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 Mau in 2025 — about 1 in 2,857.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1080 Saurimo Angola514,728
- 1081 Zamboanga City Philippines513,813
- 1082 Gorontalo Indonesia513,078
- 1083 Tongliao China512,445
- 1084 Mau512,415
- 1085 Tianshui China511,831
- 1086 Roorkee511,291
- 1087 Jinhe China510,984
- 1088 Hegang China509,748
In India, 2025
- 1053 Rohtak526,540
- 1064 Latur519,913
- 1067 Bhore518,289
- 1070 Satna517,402
- 1084 Mau512,415
- 1086 Roorkee511,291
- 1103 Lakhimpur501,540
- 1120 Fatehpur494,897
- 1123 Karnal494,241
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 Mau 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 Mau 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