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Tiruppur, 
India
1,242,837 people lived in Tiruppur in 2025. It is the 408th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 65th 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 Tiruppur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tiruppur grew
Where Tiruppur had 10 people in 1975, it had 37.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Tiruppur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tiruppur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tiruppur 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, Tiruppur covered 200 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 49 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Tiruppur, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tiruppur's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 404 São Luís Brazil1,264,379
- 405 Herat Afghanistan1,259,425
- 406 Sendai Japan1,256,440
- 407 Bujumbura Burundi1,246,960
- 408 Tiruppur1,242,837
- 409 Sylhet Bangladesh1,242,548
- 410 Montevideo Uruguay1,240,244
- 411 Tripoli Libya1,239,823
- 412 Gyanpur1,237,249
In India, 2025
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
- 395 Amritsar1,303,330
- 401 Saharanpur1,275,279
- 408 Tiruppur1,242,837
- 412 Gyanpur1,237,249
- 415 Kota1,232,364
- 421 Dehradun1,219,198
- 426 Begusarai1,210,200
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Tiruppur 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 Tiruppur 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