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Orai, 
India
301,946 people lived in Orai in 2025. It is the 1899th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 310th 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 Orai's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Orai grew
Where Orai had 10 people in 1975, it had 23.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 329,340 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
Orai through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Orai 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). Orai 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, Orai covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.0 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Orai in 2025 — about 1 in 4,762.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1895 Hafar Al-Batin Saudi Arabia302,534
- 1896 Sivakasi302,256
- 1897 Zhaotong China302,089
- 1898 Tlemcen Algeria301,980
- 1899 Orai301,946
- 1900 Owo Nigeria301,931
- 1901 Jigani301,763
- 1902 Changxing China301,206
- 1903 Hammond United States301,148
In India, 2025
- 1878 Bankura306,650
- 1883 Benipur304,786
- 1887 Barmer304,268
- 1896 Sivakasi302,256
- 1899 Orai301,946
- 1901 Jigani301,763
- 1904 Amroha301,108
- 1905 Siwan300,919
- 1910 Sirsa300,414
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 Orai 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 Orai 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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