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Simri, 
India
348,804 people lived in Simri in 2025. It is the 1639th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 266th 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 Simri's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Simri grew
For every 10 people in Simri in 2000, there were 23.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 580,724 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Simri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Simri 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). Simri 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, Simri covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.5 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Simri in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1635 Chimbote Peru350,281
- 1636 Setif Algeria349,825
- 1637 Middlesbrough United Kingdom349,436
- 1638 Palu Indonesia348,948
- 1639 Simri348,804
- 1640 Sakarya Türkiye348,302
- 1641 Narowal Pakistan348,144
- 1642 Gaoyou China348,058
- 1643 Oruro Bolivia347,830
In India, 2025
- 1625 Madhubani352,336
- 1628 Karimnagar351,832
- 1633 Purulia350,713
- 1634 Dahod350,660
- 1639 Simri348,804
- 1648 Mainpuri347,106
- 1649 Khammam346,533
- 1650 Burhanpur346,277
- 1664 Etah344,002
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 Simri are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Simri 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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