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Cities · India · 26.2° N, 86.5° E
Nawada, 
India
259,262 people lived in Nawada (26.2° N, 86.5° E) in 2025. It is the 2253rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 369th 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 Nawada's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nawada grew
For every 10 people in Nawada in 2000, there were 50.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 408,298 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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 99 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.7 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Nawada in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2248 Jianhu China259,681
- 2249 Paarl South Africa259,665
- 2250 Vidisha259,638
- 2252 Dundo Angola259,341
- 2253 Nawada259,262
- 2256 Gillingham United Kingdom258,422
- 2257 New Orleans United States258,413
- 2259 Abua Nigeria258,314
- 2260 Masaurhi258,274
In India, 2025
- 2228 Moirabari261,593
- 2234 Areraj261,142
- 2245 Khalilabad259,783
- 2250 Vidisha259,638
- 2253 Nawada259,262
- 2260 Masaurhi258,274
- 2299 Borigaon253,566
- 2320 Araria251,001
- 2329 Sikandarabad250,310
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 2000 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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