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Puri, 
India
328,196 people lived in Puri in 2025. It is the 1752nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 285th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Puri 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 Puri grew
Count 10 people in Puri in 1975 and the same count gives 18.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 335,934 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Puri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Puri in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Puri 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, Puri covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.3 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 84%.
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 Puri in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1748 Shizuoka Japan328,613
- 1749 Shangyu District China328,545
- 1750 Ya'an China328,287
- 1751 Tezpur328,217
- 1752 Puri328,196
- 1753 Balıkesir Türkiye328,080
- 1754 Tacna Peru327,582
- 1755 Baoshan China327,416
- 1756 Girga Egypt327,081
In India, 2025
- 1726 Sasaram332,715
- 1730 Chandausi331,969
- 1743 Greater Noida329,385
- 1751 Tezpur328,217
- 1752 Puri328,196
- 1758 Bhadohi326,738
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1788 Katni321,522
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 Puri 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 Puri 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