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Raiganj, 
India
456,239 people lived in Raiganj in 2025. It is the 1221st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 194th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Raiganj 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 Raiganj grew
For every 10 people in Raiganj in 1975, there were 29.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 618,020 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
Raiganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Raiganj in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Raiganj 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, Raiganj covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.7 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 6.1 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Raiganj in 2025 — about 1 in 3,226.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1217 Batman Türkiye456,902
- 1218 Saharsa456,879
- 1219 Irapuato Mexico456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary Russia456,304
- 1221 Raiganj456,239
- 1222 Vladivostok Russia455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad Pakistan454,903
- 1224 Butembo Democratic Republic of the Congo454,857
- 1225 Sadiqabad Pakistan454,465
In India, 2025
- 1201 Haldwani463,530
- 1208 Purnia461,043
- 1209 Nagercoil460,826
- 1218 Saharsa456,879
- 1221 Raiganj456,239
- 1236 Basti450,449
- 1237 Vijayapura450,192
- 1242 Canning447,522
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
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 Raiganj 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 Raiganj 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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