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Najibabad, 
India
296,669 people lived in Najibabad in 2025. It is the 1952nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 320th 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 Najibabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Najibabad grew
Count 10 people in Najibabad in 1975 and the same count gives 23.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 403,411 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Najibabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Najibabad 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). Najibabad 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, Najibabad covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Najibabad in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1948 Moulvibazar Bangladesh297,098
- 1949 Wenjiang China296,976
- 1950 Valsad296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
- 1952 Najibabad296,669
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi Nigeria296,331
- 1955 Gumi-si South Korea296,323
- 1956 Tanga Tanzania296,202
- 1957 Kankan Guinea296,159
In India, 2025
- 1939 Karur297,598
- 1947 Attingal297,140
- 1950 Valsad296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar296,840
- 1952 Najibabad296,669
- 1967 Wardha295,117
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
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 Najibabad 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 Najibabad 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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