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Udupi, 
India
315,743 people lived in Udupi in 2025. It is the 1817th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 296th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Udupi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Udupi grew
For every 10 people in Udupi in 1975, there were 27 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 363,319 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
Udupi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Udupi 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). Udupi 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, Udupi covered 86 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.9 times its size, and its people are 2.7 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 Udupi in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1813 Surendranagar316,206
- 1814 Buôn Ma Thuột Vietnam316,052
- 1815 Guiping China315,905
- 1816 Iquique Chile315,904
- 1817 Udupi315,743
- 1818 Sapele Nigeria315,614
- 1819 Pathankot315,476
- 1820 Miluo China315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou China315,167
In India, 2025
- 1800 Raichur319,647
- 1811 Bhusawal317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh316,861
- 1813 Surendranagar316,206
- 1817 Udupi315,743
- 1819 Pathankot315,476
- 1828 Kodarma313,949
- 1830 Gandhidham313,691
- 1837 Bidar312,534
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 Udupi 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 Udupi 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