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Mayiladuthurai, 
India
288,923 people lived in Mayiladuthurai in 2025. It is the 2013th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 328th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Mayiladuthurai grew
Count 10 people in Mayiladuthurai in 1975 and the same count gives 42.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 307,244 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Mayiladuthurai through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mayiladuthurai in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mayiladuthurai 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, Mayiladuthurai covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.6 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people have grown by 82%.
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 Mayiladuthurai in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2010 Qamishli Syria289,200
- 2011 Tacoma United States289,128
- 2012 Kombolcha Ethiopia288,941
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
- 2017 Huilai China288,590
- 2018 Weinan China288,582
- 2019 Nag Hammadi Egypt288,576
- 2020 Bratislava Slovakia288,533
In India, 2025
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
- 2021 Bhiwani288,360
- 2033 Jianpur286,148
- 2036 Gondia285,870
- 2046 Zakiganj284,125
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Mayiladuthurai 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 Mayiladuthurai 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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