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Tiruvannamalai, 
India
342,795 people lived in Tiruvannamalai in 2025. It is the 1669th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 271st largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Tiruvannamalai 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 Tiruvannamalai grew
For every 10 people in Tiruvannamalai in 1975, there were 29.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 366,532 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Tiruvannamalai through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tiruvannamalai 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 Tiruvannamalai; 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, Tiruvannamalai covered 37 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.3 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 33%.
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 Tiruvannamalai in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1665 Banda Aceh Indonesia343,382
- 1666 Dongying China343,003
- 1667 Kaili China342,989
- 1668 Edendale South Africa342,930
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai342,795
- 1670 Yanshi District China342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan China342,467
- 1672 Tahoua Niger342,253
- 1673 Qingzhou China342,044
In India, 2025
- 1648 Mainpuri347,106
- 1649 Khammam346,533
- 1650 Burhanpur346,277
- 1664 Etah344,002
- 1669 Tiruvannamalai342,795
- 1682 Birpur339,926
- 1684 Bhagalpur339,560
- 1696 Thakurdwara336,772
- 1701 Pupri336,223
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 Tiruvannamalai 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 Tiruvannamalai 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