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Silvassa, 
India
366,589 people lived in Silvassa in 2025. It is the 1563rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 253rd largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Silvassa grew
For every 10 people in Silvassa in 1995, there were 50.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 562,258 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Silvassa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Silvassa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Silvassa 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, Silvassa covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 6.7 times its size, and its people are 5.1 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 Silvassa in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1559 Gonaïves Haiti367,158
- 1560 Santa Fe Argentina366,960
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
- 1562 Tong'an China366,871
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1564 Tver Russia366,542
- 1565 Arak Iran366,442
- 1566 Batna Algeria366,415
- 1567 Dusuq Egypt366,123
In India, 2025
- 1548 Dehri368,750
- 1550 Thoothukudi368,221
- 1554 Godhra367,633
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1570 Yavatmal363,908
- 1589 Pilibhit358,059
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
- 1600 Korba355,784
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 Silvassa are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Silvassa 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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