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Srinagar, 
India
1,126,638 people lived in Srinagar in 2025. It is the 458th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 73rd largest in India, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Srinagar governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Srinagar grew
Where Srinagar had 10 people in 1975, it had 28.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Srinagar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Srinagar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Srinagar 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, Srinagar covered 78 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 2.9 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Srinagar, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Srinagar. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 454 Đà Nẵng Vietnam1,142,621
- 455 Huizhou China1,137,670
- 456 Kazan Russia1,132,941
- 457 Sekondi-Takoradi Ghana1,127,436
- 458 Srinagar1,126,638
- 459 Cologne Germany1,125,292
- 460 Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina Faso1,125,023
- 461 Suhaj Egypt1,123,349
- 462 Auckland New Zealand1,123,094
In India, 2025
- 426 Begusarai1,210,200
- 433 Jalandhar1,192,763
- 443 Jammu1,154,466
- 450 Bhubaneshwar1,146,434
- 458 Srinagar1,126,638
- 465 Berhampore1,109,144
- 468 Solapur1,102,702
- 490 Kottayam1,043,314
- 492 Barharia1,038,927
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 Srinagar 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 Srinagar 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