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Shivamogga, 
India
423,880 people lived in Shivamogga in 2025. It is the 1319th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 210th 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 Shivamogga's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Shivamogga grew
Count 10 people in Shivamogga in 1975 and the same count gives 17 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 479,431 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Shivamogga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shivamogga 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). Shivamogga 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, Shivamogga covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 70%.
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 Shivamogga in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1315 Dere Nigeria425,674
- 1316 Torit South Sudan424,731
- 1317 Ranghulu China424,460
- 1318 Ziyang China424,328
- 1319 Shivamogga423,880
- 1320 Deoghar423,674
- 1321 Jingdezhen China423,386
- 1322 Porto Velho Brazil422,943
- 1323 Sumgayit Azerbaijan422,836
In India, 2025
- 1294 Jhusi431,880
- 1296 Padrauna431,649
- 1300 Katihar430,470
- 1307 Khansahib428,041
- 1319 Shivamogga423,880
- 1320 Deoghar423,674
- 1331 Bathinda421,753
- 1336 Navsari421,121
- 1337 Giridih420,525
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 Shivamogga 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 Shivamogga 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