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Sikar, 
India
333,509 people lived in Sikar in 2025. It is the 1719th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 279th 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 Sikar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sikar grew
Where Sikar had 10 people in 1975, it had 14.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 408,577 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Sikar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sikar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Sikar is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Sikar covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 41%.
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 Sikar in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1715 Jianyang China333,938
- 1716 Neiva Colombia333,744
- 1717 Nagaon333,706
- 1718 Xuanhua China333,650
- 1719 Sikar333,509
- 1720 Garissa Kenya333,505
- 1721 Gwagwalada Nigeria333,464
- 1722 Basel Switzerland333,021
- 1723 Nicosia Cyprus333,008
In India, 2025
- 1701 Pupri336,223
- 1703 Tanur335,953
- 1705 Sri Ganganagar335,747
- 1717 Nagaon333,706
- 1719 Sikar333,509
- 1724 Rudrapur332,826
- 1726 Sasaram332,715
- 1730 Chandausi331,969
- 1743 Greater Noida329,385
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 Sikar 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 Sikar 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