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Nagpur, 
India
3,257,841 people lived in Nagpur in 2025. It is the 147th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th 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 Nagpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nagpur grew
Count 10 people in Nagpur in 1975 and the same count gives 25.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 3.4 million people in 2050.
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
Nagpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nagpur 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). Nagpur 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, Nagpur covered 279 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 79 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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, 2 lived in Nagpur, which is 3.3 million people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Nagpur; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 143 Nanning China3,288,636
- 144 Quanzhou China3,286,129
- 145 Washington, D.C. United States3,270,018
- 146 Busan South Korea3,263,221
- 147 Nagpur3,257,841
- 148 Algiers Algeria3,246,400
- 149 Fortaleza Brazil3,244,260
- 150 Kathmandu Nepal3,231,516
- 151 Kunming China3,228,117
In India, 2025
- 110 Jaipur4,071,754
- 119 Varanasi3,858,863
- 136 Indore3,476,423
- 141 Patna3,309,383
- 147 Nagpur3,257,841
- 156 Kalyan-Dombivli3,163,424
- 162 Kollam3,074,562
- 166 Thiruvananthapuram2,946,119
- 167 Asansol2,924,741
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 Nagpur 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 Nagpur 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