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Pali, 
India
263,275 people lived in Pali in 2025. It is the 2216th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 360th 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 Pali grew
Where Pali had 10 people in 1975, it had 21.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 323,273 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Pali through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pali in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Pali 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, Pali covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.1 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 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 Pali in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2205 Tima Egypt264,280
- 2206 Kaunas Lithuania264,162
- 2209 Arsi Negelle Ethiopia264,039
- 2215 Firozpur263,304
- 2216 Pali263,275
- 2218 Jalingo Nigeria262,796
- 2219 Mubi Nigeria262,651
- 2220 Ulan-Ude Russia262,433
- 2221 Palwal262,399
In India, 2025
- 2196 Kaithal265,502
- 2203 Nautan264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad264,322
- 2215 Firozpur263,304
- 2216 Pali263,275
- 2221 Palwal262,399
- 2226 Ambur261,614
- 2228 Moirabari261,593
- 2234 Areraj261,142
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 Pali 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 Pali 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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