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Sahebganj, 
India
221,858 people lived in Sahebganj in 2025. It is the 2662nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 436th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Sahebganj 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 Sahebganj grew
Where Sahebganj had 10 people in 2005, it had 33.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 360,761 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Sahebganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sahebganj 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). Sahebganj 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, Sahebganj covered 88 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.1 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 Sahebganj in 2025 — about 1 in 6,667.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2649 Buea Cameroon222,996
- 2652 Sambrial Pakistan222,828
- 2657 Toba Tek Singh Pakistan222,349
- 2661 Hossana Ethiopia221,895
- 2662 Sahebganj221,858
- 2663 Mzuzu Malawi221,840
- 2670 Charlotte United States221,000
- 2674 Az Zubayr Iraq220,737
- 2675 Rustenburg South Africa220,723
In India, 2025
- 2515 Chakan233,615
- 2567 Masrakh228,857
- 2617 Maharajganj225,197
- 2630 Ramgarh224,417
- 2662 Sahebganj221,858
- 2694 Dhampur219,479
- 2752 Baraut214,706
- 2799 Darauli211,985
- 2801 Koliwar211,825
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 Sahebganj are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Sahebganj 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