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Sikandarabad, 
India
250,310 people lived in Sikandarabad in 2025. It is the 2329th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 380th 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 Sikandarabad's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sikandarabad grew
Count 10 people in Sikandarabad in 1975 and the same count gives 30 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 344,340 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Sikandarabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sikandarabad 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). Sikandarabad 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, Sikandarabad covered 23 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.8 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 75%.
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 Sikandarabad in 2025 — about 1 in 5,882.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad250,310
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
- 2334 Rehovot Israel249,925
- 2335 Laredo United States249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay United States249,822
In India, 2025
- 2253 Nawada259,262
- 2260 Masaurhi258,274
- 2299 Borigaon253,566
- 2320 Araria251,001
- 2329 Sikandarabad250,310
- 2347 Balrampur248,830
- 2348 Dausa248,804
- 2354 Naugarh248,273
- 2377 Dhupguri245,107
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 Sikandarabad 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 Sikandarabad 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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