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Cities · India · 24.9° N, 85.5° E
Nawada, 
India
290,657 people lived in Nawada (24.9° N, 85.5° E) in 2025. It is the 1999th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 324th 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 Nawada grew
Count 10 people in Nawada in 1975 and the same count gives 33.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 381,054 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Nawada through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nawada 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). Nawada 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, Nawada covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.6 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.6 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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 Nawada in 2025 — about 1 in 5,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1995 Quetzaltenango Guatemala291,105
- 1996 Louisville United States291,103
- 1997 Kursk Russia291,098
- 1998 Euclid United States290,669
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2001 Baicheng China290,420
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2003 Taloqan Afghanistan290,028
- 2007 Okrika Nigeria289,429
In India, 2025
- 1952 Najibabad296,669
- 1967 Wardha295,117
- 1978 Chhindwara293,950
- 1988 Bhadrak291,997
- 1999 Nawada290,657
- 2002 Habra290,311
- 2008 Maheshkhunt289,419
- 2009 Banda289,334
- 2013 Mayiladuthurai288,923
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 Nawada 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 Nawada 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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