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Shahabad, 
India
156,497 people lived in Shahabad in 2025. It is the 3871st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 641st largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Shahabad is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shahabad grew
Where Shahabad had 10 people in 1975, it had 9.3 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 182,918 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN's figures for Shahabad fall from 321,978 in 2010 to 149,791 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
Shahabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shahabad 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 Shahabad; 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, Shahabad covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.9 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 90%, and its people have fallen by 34%.
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 Shahabad in 2025 — about 1 in 9,091.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3825 Musumba Democratic Republic of the Congo158,159
- 3846 ad-Damer Sudan157,497
- 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
- 3870 Kafr Saqr Egypt156,498
- 3871 Shahabad156,497
- 3881 Bến Tre Vietnam156,097
- 3883 Madaoua Niger156,053
- 3886 Musanze Rwanda155,984
- 3895 Katoro Tanzania155,625
In India, 2025
- 3217 Domariaganj187,658
- 3247 Meja Road186,137
- 3415 Handia176,779
- 3428 Islampur176,380
- 3871 Shahabad156,497
- 4071 Bairgachhi148,986
- 4370 Haidarganj139,637
- 4695 Sandila130,012
- 4847 Chauri Chaura126,176
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 Shahabad 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 Shahabad 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