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Patiala, 
India
718,308 people lived in Patiala in 2025. It is the 746th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 116th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Patiala 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 Patiala grew
Where Patiala had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 760,993 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
Patiala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Patiala 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). Patiala 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, Patiala covered 94 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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 Patiala in 2025 — about 1 in 2,041.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 742 Bouaké Côte d’Ivoire724,691
- 743 Meknes Morocco722,852
- 744 Yingxia China719,432
- 745 Gulin China718,364
- 746 Patiala718,308
- 747 Linchuan China718,050
- 748 Haridwar717,990
- 749 Makhachkala Russia717,618
- 750 Iloilo City Philippines717,038
In India, 2025
- 703 Agartala758,699
- 712 Kalaburagi753,963
- 724 Bhavnagar739,115
- 731 Nellore732,235
- 746 Patiala718,308
- 748 Haridwar717,990
- 756 Mirzapur710,567
- 757 Panipat710,363
- 760 Rasoi703,790
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 Patiala 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 Patiala 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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries