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Roorkee, 
India
511,291 people lived in Roorkee in 2025. It is the 1086th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 171st 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 Roorkee's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Roorkee grew
For every 10 people in Roorkee in 1975, there were 31.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 637,336 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Roorkee through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Roorkee in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Roorkee 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, Roorkee covered 56 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.6 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Roorkee in 2025 — about 1 in 2,857.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1082 Gorontalo Indonesia513,078
- 1083 Tongliao China512,445
- 1084 Mau512,415
- 1085 Tianshui China511,831
- 1086 Roorkee511,291
- 1087 Jinhe China510,984
- 1088 Hegang China509,748
- 1089 Wrocław Poland508,528
- 1090 Fuxin China508,131
In India, 2025
- 1064 Latur519,913
- 1067 Bhore518,289
- 1070 Satna517,402
- 1084 Mau512,415
- 1086 Roorkee511,291
- 1103 Lakhimpur501,540
- 1120 Fatehpur494,897
- 1123 Karnal494,241
- 1126 Hapur493,837
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 Roorkee 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 Roorkee 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