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Shankarpur, 
India
280,248 people lived in Shankarpur in 2025. It is the 2071st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 335th 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 Shankarpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shankarpur grew
For every 10 people in Shankarpur in 2010, there were 47.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 521,454 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, 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
Shankarpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shankarpur 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). Shankarpur 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, Shankarpur covered 119 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.8 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Shankarpur in 2025 — about 1 in 5,263.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2064 Ikirun Nigeria281,875
- 2065 Heroica Nogales Mexico281,580
- 2066 Cape Coast Ghana281,579
- 2068 Batala281,142
- 2071 Shankarpur280,248
- 2072 Tundla280,215
- 2073 Kofu Japan280,212
- 2074 Mary Turkmenistan280,172
- 2075 Southend-on-Sea United Kingdom280,158
In India, 2025
- 2036 Gondia285,870
- 2046 Zakiganj284,125
- 2054 Boisar283,063
- 2068 Batala281,142
- 2071 Shankarpur280,248
- 2072 Tundla280,215
- 2080 Ekma279,229
- 2082 Medininagar278,795
- 2092 Dhaulpur277,498
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Shankarpur are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Shankarpur 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 →
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