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Modinagar, 
India
400,401 people lived in Modinagar in 2025. It is the 1414th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 228th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Modinagar 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 Modinagar grew
Where Modinagar had 10 people in 1975, it had 69.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 490,433 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: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Modinagar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Modinagar 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). Modinagar 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, Modinagar covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.7 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 3.7 times its size, and its people are 6.9 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 Modinagar in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1410 Mallawi Egypt401,471
- 1411 Bhiwadi401,290
- 1412 Sandakan Malaysia400,980
- 1413 Saki Nigeria400,875
- 1414 Modinagar400,401
- 1415 Podolsk Russia400,335
- 1416 Guarenas Venezuela399,477
- 1417 Manisa Türkiye399,014
- 1418 Wuzhou China398,593
In India, 2025
- 1403 Tumakuru403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur402,987
- 1406 Palakkad401,965
- 1411 Bhiwadi401,290
- 1414 Modinagar400,401
- 1421 Pratapgarh398,315
- 1435 Khandwa394,910
- 1437 Kanchipuram394,850
- 1438 Sonipat394,583
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 Modinagar 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 Modinagar 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