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Sultanpur, 
India
562,032 people lived in Sultanpur in 2025. It is the 975th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 151st 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 Sultanpur grew
Where Sultanpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 17.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 839,499 people in 2050.
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
Sultanpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sultanpur 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). Sultanpur 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, Sultanpur covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.7 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 78%.
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 Sultanpur in 2025 — about 1 in 2,632.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze China562,800
- 975 Sultanpur562,032
- 976 Al Minya Egypt561,945
- 977 Denizli Türkiye561,327
- 978 Otsu Japan559,798
- 979 Qarshi Uzbekistan559,475
In India, 2025
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 958 Alwar571,972
- 968 Mathura566,188
- 975 Sultanpur562,032
- 980 Chhapra559,249
- 981 Davanagere559,117
- 984 Kalyanpur557,803
- 991 Rampur553,229
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Sultanpur 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 Sultanpur 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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