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Tanur, 
India
335,953 people lived in Tanur in 2025. It is the 1703rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 276th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Tanur is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tanur grew
Count 10 people in Tanur in 1975 and the same count gives 17.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 425,045 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Tanur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tanur 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). Tanur 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, Tanur covered 113 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people have grown by 73%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Tanur in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1699 Shuozhou China336,303
- 1700 Ningguo China336,274
- 1701 Pupri336,223
- 1702 Shouguang China336,017
- 1703 Tanur335,953
- 1704 Garawan Egypt335,801
- 1705 Sri Ganganagar335,747
- 1706 Duri Indonesia335,728
- 1707 Indramayu Indonesia335,572
In India, 2025
- 1682 Birpur339,926
- 1684 Bhagalpur339,560
- 1696 Thakurdwara336,772
- 1701 Pupri336,223
- 1703 Tanur335,953
- 1705 Sri Ganganagar335,747
- 1717 Nagaon333,706
- 1719 Sikar333,509
- 1724 Rudrapur332,826
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 Tanur 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 Tanur 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