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Sandila, 
India
130,012 people lived in Sandila in 2025. It is the 4695th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 779th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Sandila 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 Sandila grew
For every 10 people in Sandila in 1975, there were 6.4 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 160,401 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN's figures for Sandila fall from 311,142 in 2010 to 125,969 in 2020. The UN rates its own confidence in the 2010 figure as moderate: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Sandila through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sandila 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 Sandila; 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, Sandila covered 9 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.6 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 60%, and its people have fallen by 50%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Sandila in 2025 — about 1 in 11,111.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4569 Rajoir Bangladesh133,428
- 4637 Alipur Pakistan131,848
- 4657 Kayanza Burundi131,192
- 4681 Areka Ethiopia130,386
- 4695 Sandila130,012
- 4719 Domeez Iraq129,444
- 4771 Mtwara Tanzania128,086
- 4839 Rihab Yemen126,332
- 4847 Chauri Chaura126,176
In India, 2025
- 3428 Islampur176,380
- 3871 Shahabad156,497
- 4071 Bairgachhi148,986
- 4370 Haidarganj139,637
- 4695 Sandila130,012
- 4847 Chauri Chaura126,176
- 5021 Phulidumar122,053
- 5616 Akbarpur109,949
- 6688 Fatehpur92,631
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 Sandila 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 Sandila 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