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Nadiad, 
India
391,934 people lived in Nadiad in 2025. It is the 1452nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 237th 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 Nadiad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nadiad grew
Where Nadiad had 10 people in 1975, it had 15.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 478,516 people in 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
Nadiad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nadiad 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). Nadiad 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, Nadiad covered 34 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.1 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 56%.
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 Nadiad in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1448 Gonder Ethiopia392,767
- 1449 Jiyuan China392,568
- 1450 Motihari392,303
- 1451 Corrientes Argentina392,082
- 1452 Nadiad391,934
- 1453 Juba South Sudan391,311
- 1454 Zheba China390,709
- 1455 Cardiff United Kingdom390,692
- 1456 Takht Bhai Pakistan390,608
In India, 2025
- 1441 Mahesana394,304
- 1445 Morena393,553
- 1446 Kadapa393,513
- 1450 Motihari392,303
- 1452 Nadiad391,934
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj389,533
- 1483 Eluru383,068
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
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 Nadiad 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 Nadiad 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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