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Nizamabad, 
India
442,690 people lived in Nizamabad in 2025. It is the 1258th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 200th 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 Nizamabad grew
Where Nizamabad had 10 people in 1975, it had 18.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 470,053 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Nizamabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nizamabad 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). Nizamabad 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, Nizamabad covered 50 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 84%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Nizamabad in 2025 — about 1 in 3,333.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1254 Abéché Chad443,793
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1256 Irkutsk Russia442,807
- 1257 Bishoftu Ethiopia442,776
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1259 Santa Marta Colombia442,455
- 1260 Blitar Indonesia442,219
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1262 Belfast United Kingdom441,925
In India, 2025
- 1237 Vijayapura450,192
- 1242 Canning447,522
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
- 1261 Anantapur442,201
- 1270 Dindigul438,809
- 1279 Cuddalore436,495
- 1285 Sambhal435,760
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 Nizamabad 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 Nizamabad 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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