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Vasai-Virar, 
India
1,542,177 people lived in Vasai-Virar in 2025. It is the 323rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 51st largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Vasai-Virar grew
Count 10 people in Vasai-Virar in 1975 and the same count gives 45.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.9 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Vasai-Virar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vasai-Virar 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). Vasai-Virar 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, Vasai-Virar covered 136 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 10.1 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Vasai-Virar, which is 1.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Vasai-Virar. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 319 Nouakchott Mauritania1,561,617
- 320 Tijuana Mexico1,557,695
- 321 Gwalior1,554,246
- 322 Davao City Philippines1,546,026
- 323 Vasai-Virar1,542,177
- 324 Mandalay Myanmar1,541,309
- 325 Manama Bahrain1,538,872
- 326 Surakarta Indonesia1,538,599
- 327 Panama City Panama1,527,393
In India, 2025
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot1,581,235
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
- 321 Gwalior1,554,246
- 323 Vasai-Virar1,542,177
- 330 Gorakhpur1,519,206
- 332 Jodhpur1,515,910
- 342 Moradabad1,484,611
- 345 Raipur1,478,688
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 Vasai-Virar 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 Vasai-Virar 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