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Rishikesh, 
India
325,933 people lived in Rishikesh in 2025. It is the 1762nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 287th largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Rishikesh's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rishikesh grew
Where Rishikesh had 10 people in 1975, it had 37.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 398,659 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Rishikesh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rishikesh in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Rishikesh 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, Rishikesh covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.5 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.5 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Rishikesh in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1758 Bhadohi326,738
- 1759 Kuala Terengganu Malaysia326,615
- 1760 Ciudad Obregón Mexico326,226
- 1761 Port-de-Paix Haiti326,041
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1764 Sanandaj Iran325,425
- 1765 Jiaonan China325,383
- 1766 Canoas Brazil325,022
In India, 2025
- 1743 Greater Noida329,385
- 1751 Tezpur328,217
- 1752 Puri328,196
- 1758 Bhadohi326,738
- 1762 Rishikesh325,933
- 1763 Khanakul325,882
- 1788 Katni321,522
- 1795 Ranipet320,233
- 1798 Balurghat319,934
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 Rishikesh 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 Rishikesh 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