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Muriya, 
India
269,810 people lived in Muriya in 2025. It is the 2159th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 348th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Muriya 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 Muriya grew
Count 10 people in Muriya in 1985 and the same count gives 53.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 404,733 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, 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
Muriya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Muriya 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). Muriya 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, Muriya covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.3 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 Muriya in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2155 Ambano Madagascar270,357
- 2156 Kapoeta South Sudan270,167
- 2157 Saghatta Bangladesh270,148
- 2158 Minakhan270,142
- 2159 Muriya269,810
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo Nigeria269,742
- 2161 Dadu Pakistan269,400
- 2162 Wuqing China269,223
- 2164 Kabinda Democratic Republic of the Congo269,115
In India, 2025
- 2138 Guna271,913
- 2149 Jind270,881
- 2150 Hassan270,626
- 2158 Minakhan270,142
- 2159 Muriya269,810
- 2165 Beldanga269,051
- 2167 Patahi268,862
- 2170 Chhatarpur268,598
- 2188 Bihpur266,585
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 Muriya are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Muriya 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