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Palwal, 
India
262,399 people lived in Palwal in 2025. It is the 2221st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 361st largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Palwal is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Palwal grew
Where Palwal had 10 people in 1975, it had 21.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 326,397 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
Palwal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Palwal 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 Palwal; 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, Palwal covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.8 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Palwal in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2216 Pali263,275
- 2218 Jalingo Nigeria262,796
- 2219 Mubi Nigeria262,651
- 2220 Ulan-Ude Russia262,433
- 2221 Palwal262,399
- 2222 Urgench Uzbekistan262,377
- 2224 Kharian Pakistan262,272
- 2226 Ambur261,614
- 2227 Jinja Uganda261,604
In India, 2025
- 2203 Nautan264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad264,322
- 2215 Firozpur263,304
- 2216 Pali263,275
- 2221 Palwal262,399
- 2226 Ambur261,614
- 2228 Moirabari261,593
- 2234 Areraj261,142
- 2245 Khalilabad259,783
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 Palwal 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 Palwal 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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