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Nellore, 
India
732,235 people lived in Nellore in 2025. It is the 731st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 115th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nellore governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nellore grew
For every 10 people in Nellore in 1975, there were 23 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 803,095 people in 2050.
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
Nellore through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nellore in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Nellore; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Nellore covered 89 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Nellore, which is 732,235 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 Nellore; 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
- 727 Mexicali Mexico737,963
- 728 Saltillo Mexico737,662
- 729 Kocaeli Türkiye737,380
- 730 Benxi China734,933
- 731 Nellore732,235
- 732 Columbus United States731,335
- 733 Sahiwal Pakistan730,463
- 734 Lu'an China729,998
- 735 Tulungagung Indonesia728,924
In India, 2025
- 699 Sangli761,451
- 703 Agartala758,699
- 712 Kalaburagi753,963
- 724 Bhavnagar739,115
- 731 Nellore732,235
- 746 Patiala718,308
- 748 Haridwar717,990
- 756 Mirzapur710,567
- 757 Panipat710,363
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 Nellore 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 Nellore 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