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Moradabad, 
India
1,484,611 people lived in Moradabad in 2025. It is the 342nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 54th largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Moradabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Moradabad grew
Count 10 people in Moradabad in 1975 and the same count gives 24.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.7 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Moradabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Moradabad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Moradabad 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, Moradabad covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Moradabad, which is 1.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Moradabad's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 338 Batam City Indonesia1,500,354
- 339 Stockholm Sweden1,500,093
- 340 Baotou China1,491,964
- 341 Anyang China1,489,112
- 342 Moradabad1,484,611
- 343 Taizhou China1,483,994
- 344 Kigali Rwanda1,483,711
- 345 Raipur1,478,688
- 346 Cordoba Argentina1,460,491
In India, 2025
- 321 Gwalior1,554,246
- 323 Vasai-Virar1,542,177
- 330 Gorakhpur1,519,206
- 332 Jodhpur1,515,910
- 342 Moradabad1,484,611
- 345 Raipur1,478,688
- 365 Durg1,393,235
- 369 Thrissur1,371,675
- 374 Vijayawada1,351,098
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 Moradabad 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 Moradabad 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