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Modanganj, 
India
236,293 people lived in Modanganj in 2025. It is the 2482nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 405th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Modanganj 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 Modanganj grew
For every 10 people in Modanganj in 1995, there were 32.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 356,589 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 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Modanganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Modanganj in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Modanganj 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, Modanganj covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.7 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown by 93%, and its people have grown by 46%.
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 Modanganj in 2025 — about 1 in 6,250.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2471 Raqqa Syria237,106
- 2472 Bonsa Bota Ethiopia237,061
- 2478 Fomboni Comoros236,750
- 2479 Ha'il Saudi Arabia236,744
- 2482 Modanganj236,293
- 2483 Amarpur236,273
- 2486 Funtua Nigeria236,087
- 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu Democratic Republic of the Congo236,056
- 2489 Sinnuris Egypt235,984
In India, 2025
- 2437 Payyanur240,715
- 2448 Dohrighat239,251
- 2465 Dhaka237,385
- 2470 Lakhnaur237,133
- 2482 Modanganj236,293
- 2483 Amarpur236,273
- 2498 Tanda234,610
- 2503 Bilasipara234,318
- 2515 Chakan233,615
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 Modanganj are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Modanganj 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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