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Vellore, 
India
820,103 people lived in Vellore in 2025. It is the 640th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 99th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Vellore 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 Vellore grew
Count 10 people in Vellore in 1975 and the same count gives 38.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 935,591 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Vellore through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vellore 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 Vellore; 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, Vellore covered 97 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 12.6 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 Vellore, which is 820,103 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Vellore. 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
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 637 Baoji China823,847
- 638 Ipoh Malaysia823,097
- 639 Huangshi China821,445
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 642 Porto-Novo Benin818,617
- 643 Okayama Japan817,266
- 644 Qom Iran815,416
In India, 2025
- 624 Kotwali839,900
- 627 Colachel837,735
- 628 Warangal837,561
- 636 Imphal824,757
- 640 Vellore820,103
- 641 Kolhapur819,671
- 646 Munger814,325
- 656 Udaipur807,617
- 660 Belagavi800,130
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 Vellore 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 Vellore 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