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Shikohabad, 
India
264,322 people lived in Shikohabad in 2025. It is the 2204th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 357th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shikohabad grew
For every 10 people in Shikohabad in 1975, there were 17.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 329,053 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shikohabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shikohabad 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 Shikohabad; 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, Shikohabad covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.8 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 35%.
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 Shikohabad in 2025 — about 1 in 5,556.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2196 Kaithal265,502
- 2197 El Oued Algeria265,408
- 2200 Jining China265,293
- 2203 Nautan264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad264,322
- 2205 Tima Egypt264,280
- 2206 Kaunas Lithuania264,162
- 2209 Arsi Negelle Ethiopia264,039
- 2215 Firozpur263,304
In India, 2025
- 2188 Bihpur266,585
- 2189 Bijnor266,240
- 2196 Kaithal265,502
- 2203 Nautan264,437
- 2204 Shikohabad264,322
- 2215 Firozpur263,304
- 2216 Pali263,275
- 2221 Palwal262,399
- 2226 Ambur261,614
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 Shikohabad 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 Shikohabad 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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