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Silchar, 
India
544,936 people lived in Silchar in 2025. It is the 1008th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 159th 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 Silchar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Silchar grew
Count 10 people in Silchar in 1975 and the same count gives 18.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 609,400 people in 2050.
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
Silchar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Silchar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Silchar 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, Silchar covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 82%.
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 Silchar in 2025 — about 1 in 2,703.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1004 Port Louis Mauritius549,015
- 1005 Arrah547,584
- 1006 Meishan China546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District China545,983
- 1008 Silchar544,936
- 1009 Wanzhou China544,748
- 1010 Cilacap Indonesia544,657
- 1011 Hisar543,775
- 1012 Huazhou China543,709
In India, 2025
- 991 Rampur553,229
- 996 Azamgarh551,621
- 999 Bahraich550,317
- 1005 Arrah547,584
- 1008 Silchar544,936
- 1011 Hisar543,775
- 1013 Bulandshahr543,659
- 1024 Tirupati539,275
- 1032 Bettiah535,979
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 Silchar 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 Silchar 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