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Ujjain, 
India
583,405 people lived in Ujjain in 2025. It is the 938th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 145th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Ujjain 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 Ujjain grew
For every 10 people in Ujjain in 1975, there were 20.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 695,636 people in 2050.
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
Ujjain through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ujjain 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 Ujjain; 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, Ujjain covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people are 2 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 Ujjain in 2025 — about 1 in 2,500.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 934 Zaragoza Spain585,533
- 935 Loudi China585,521
- 936 Cangzhou China585,507
- 937 Adama Ethiopia584,854
- 938 Ujjain583,405
- 939 Madalla Nigeria583,367
- 940 Oujda Morocco583,116
- 941 Bunia Democratic Republic of the Congo582,792
- 942 Lodz Poland582,659
In India, 2025
- 924 Brahmapur590,028
- 928 Sagar587,471
- 929 Ballari587,340
- 930 Deoria586,987
- 938 Ujjain583,405
- 943 Rajamahendravaram582,520
- 946 Jaunpur580,893
- 953 Ballia576,284
- 958 Alwar571,972
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 Ujjain 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 Ujjain 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