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Munger, 
India
814,325 people lived in Munger in 2025. It is the 646th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 101st 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 Munger grew
For every 10 people in Munger in 1975, there were 35.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2045 and 2050.
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
Munger through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Munger in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Munger 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, Munger covered 105 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 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 3.8 times its size, and its people are 3.6 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Munger, which is 814,325 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 Munger's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 642 Porto-Novo Benin818,617
- 643 Okayama Japan817,266
- 644 Qom Iran815,416
- 645 Zakho Iraq814,526
- 646 Munger814,325
- 647 Nasiriyah Iraq813,799
- 648 Al Mushahidah Iraq813,506
- 649 Mit Ghamr Egypt812,947
- 650 Sukkur Pakistan812,885
In India, 2025
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 646 Munger814,325
- 656 Udaipur807,617
- 660 Belagavi800,130
- 661 Bilaspur799,772
- 680 Jalgaon781,486
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Munger 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 Munger 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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