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Siliguri, 
India
658,183 people lived in Siliguri in 2025. It is the 827th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 130th 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 Siliguri's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Siliguri grew
Count 10 people in Siliguri in 1975 and the same count gives 35 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 753,072 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Siliguri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Siliguri 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 Siliguri; 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, Siliguri covered 130 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 3.5 times as many.
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 Siliguri in 2025 — about 1 in 2,222.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 823 Bogura Bangladesh661,378
- 824 Gqeberha South Africa661,220
- 825 Diyarbakir Türkiye660,826
- 826 Al-Ubayyid Sudan659,964
- 827 Siliguri658,183
- 828 Bacolod Philippines655,836
- 829 Volgograd Russia655,020
- 830 Tamale Ghana654,868
- 831 Zucheng China654,599
In India, 2025
- 801 Yamunanagar677,536
- 816 Anand664,789
- 821 Kannur662,128
- 822 Jhansi662,059
- 827 Siliguri658,183
- 838 Dhule643,777
- 840 Jalpaiguri642,158
- 858 Ajmer631,176
- 872 Malegaon618,133
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 Siliguri 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 Siliguri 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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