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Palakkad, 
India
401,965 people lived in Palakkad in 2025. It is the 1406th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 226th 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 Palakkad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Palakkad grew
For every 10 people in Palakkad in 1975, there were 15.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 450,215 people in 2050.
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
Palakkad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Palakkad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Palakkad is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Palakkad covered 58 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8 times its size, and its people have grown by 55%.
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 Palakkad in 2025 — about 1 in 3,704.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1402 Joharabad Pakistan403,179
- 1403 Tumakuru403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur402,987
- 1405 Minya Al-Qamh Egypt402,716
- 1406 Palakkad401,965
- 1407 Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan401,839
- 1408 Tepic Mexico401,753
- 1409 Feni Bangladesh401,506
- 1410 Mallawi Egypt401,471
In India, 2025
- 1390 Bhind406,712
- 1393 Kumbakonam405,885
- 1403 Tumakuru403,109
- 1404 Bharatpur402,987
- 1406 Palakkad401,965
- 1411 Bhiwadi401,290
- 1414 Modinagar400,401
- 1421 Pratapgarh398,315
- 1435 Khandwa394,910
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Palakkad 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 Palakkad 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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