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Saharanpur, 
India
1,275,279 people lived in Saharanpur in 2025. It is the 401st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 64th 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 Saharanpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Saharanpur grew
Count 10 people in Saharanpur in 1975 and the same count gives 25.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.6 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Saharanpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Saharanpur 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 Saharanpur; 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, Saharanpur covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Saharanpur, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Saharanpur. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 397 San Pedro Sula Honduras1,299,457
- 398 Tembisa South Africa1,298,512
- 399 Ilorin Nigeria1,282,219
- 400 Lubango Angola1,280,986
- 401 Saharanpur1,275,279
- 402 Antalya Türkiye1,273,822
- 403 Al-Najaf Iraq1,273,450
- 404 São Luís Brazil1,264,379
- 405 Herat Afghanistan1,259,425
In India, 2025
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 401 Saharanpur1,275,279
- 408 Tiruppur1,242,837
- 412 Gyanpur1,237,249
- 415 Kota1,232,364
- 421 Dehradun1,219,198
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 Saharanpur 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 Saharanpur 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