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Tirunelveli, 
India
376,005 people lived in Tirunelveli in 2025. It is the 1509th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 243rd 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 Tirunelveli's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tirunelveli grew
Where Tirunelveli had 10 people in 1975, it had 20.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 436,971 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: 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
Tirunelveli through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tirunelveli in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Tirunelveli; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Tirunelveli covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.2 times its size, and its people are 2.1 times as many.
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 Tirunelveli in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1505 Jizzakh Uzbekistan376,607
- 1506 Gamboru Nigeria376,374
- 1507 Mirpur Khas Pakistan376,343
- 1508 Stavropol Russia376,062
- 1509 Tirunelveli376,005
- 1510 Timika Indonesia375,910
- 1511 Xinghua China375,876
- 1512 Lalpur Bangladesh375,833
- 1513 Posadas Argentina375,741
In India, 2025
- 1483 Eluru383,068
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
- 1503 Kralpora377,602
- 1509 Tirunelveli376,005
- 1514 Viluppuram375,616
- 1523 Debandi374,423
- 1528 Junagadh373,265
- 1530 Khagaria372,707
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 Tirunelveli 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 Tirunelveli 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