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Muzaffarnagar, 
India
849,004 people lived in Muzaffarnagar in 2025. It is the 616th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 93rd 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 Muzaffarnagar grew
For every 10 people in Muzaffarnagar in 1975, there were 24.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Muzaffarnagar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Muzaffarnagar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Muzaffarnagar 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, Muzaffarnagar covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 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 2.7 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Muzaffarnagar, which is 849,004 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Muzaffarnagar. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 612 Jinzhou China854,575
- 613 Abbottabad Pakistan851,819
- 614 Haizhou District China850,645
- 615 Port Said Egypt849,767
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
- 617 Cúcuta Colombia848,408
- 618 Mérida Mexico847,166
- 619 Gujrat Pakistan846,968
- 620 Faiyum Egypt846,831
In India, 2025
- 586 Bikaner882,222
- 594 Firozabad878,282
- 605 Bokaro862,593
- 606 Guntur862,068
- 616 Muzaffarnagar849,004
- 623 Bakhtiyarpur843,195
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
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 Muzaffarnagar 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 Muzaffarnagar 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