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Mysuru, 
India
1,342,126 people lived in Mysuru in 2025. It is the 379th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 60th 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 Mysuru grew
Where Mysuru had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Mysuru through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mysuru 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). Mysuru 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, Mysuru covered 145 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 34 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.6 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Mysuru, which is 1.3 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 Mysuru's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 375 Huaiyin District China1,349,827
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 377 Cochabamba Bolivia1,346,672
- 378 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan1,343,048
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 381 Novosibirsk Russia1,331,432
- 382 Purwokerto Indonesia1,331,010
- 383 Mardan Pakistan1,330,031
In India, 2025
- 365 Durg1,393,235
- 369 Thrissur1,371,675
- 374 Vijayawada1,351,098
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 401 Saharanpur1,275,279
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 Mysuru 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 Mysuru 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