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Ranipet, 
India
320,233 people lived in Ranipet in 2025. It is the 1795th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 290th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Ranipet 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 Ranipet grew
Where Ranipet had 10 people in 1975, it had 56.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 392,223 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Ranipet through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ranipet 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). Ranipet 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, Ranipet covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 8.5 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 Ranipet in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1791 Ilebo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,392
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi Vietnam320,907
- 1793 Famenin Iran320,591
- 1794 Trabzon Türkiye320,468
- 1795 Ranipet320,233
- 1796 Aksu China320,179
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira] Venezuela320,109
- 1798 Balurghat319,934
- 1799 Deir el-Balah Palestine319,915
In India, 2025
- 1758 Bhadohi326,738
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1788 Katni321,522
- 1795 Ranipet320,233
- 1798 Balurghat319,934
- 1800 Raichur319,647
- 1811 Bhusawal317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh316,861
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ranipet 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 Ranipet 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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