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Rohtak, 
India
526,540 people lived in Rohtak in 2025. It is the 1053rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 166th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Rohtak 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 Rohtak grew
For every 10 people in Rohtak in 1975, there were 21.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 617,625 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Rohtak through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rohtak in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Rohtak; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Rohtak covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 2.2 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 Rohtak in 2025 — about 1 in 2,778.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1049 Feira de Santana Brazil529,185
- 1050 Beibei China527,806
- 1051 Langfang China527,161
- 1052 Maroua Cameroon526,702
- 1053 Rohtak526,540
- 1054 Astrakhan Russia524,085
- 1055 Jember Indonesia522,844
- 1056 Masetjhaba View South Africa522,402
- 1057 Málaga Spain521,854
In India, 2025
- 1024 Tirupati539,275
- 1032 Bettiah535,979
- 1037 Shillong534,861
- 1038 Ahmednagar534,622
- 1053 Rohtak526,540
- 1064 Latur519,913
- 1067 Bhore518,289
- 1070 Satna517,402
- 1084 Mau512,415
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 Rohtak 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 Rohtak 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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