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Pilibhit, 
India
358,059 people lived in Pilibhit in 2025. It is the 1589th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 255th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Pilibhit governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Pilibhit grew
For every 10 people in Pilibhit in 1975, there were 15.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 422,601 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Pilibhit through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pilibhit 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). Pilibhit 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, Pilibhit covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.2 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 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 Pilibhit in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1585 Boa Vista Brazil360,361
- 1586 Fallujah Iraq359,695
- 1587 Grenoble France359,128
- 1588 Danyang City China358,677
- 1589 Pilibhit358,059
- 1590 Piracicaba Brazil357,844
- 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
- 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain357,753
- 1593 Chiniot Pakistan357,181
In India, 2025
- 1554 Godhra367,633
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1570 Yavatmal363,908
- 1589 Pilibhit358,059
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
- 1600 Korba355,784
- 1603 Satara355,609
- 1604 Dhubri355,592
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 Pilibhit 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 Pilibhit 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