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Vijayapura, 
India
450,192 people lived in Vijayapura in 2025. It is the 1237th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 196th largest in India.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Vijayapura's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Vijayapura grew
Count 10 people in Vijayapura in 1975 and the same count gives 18.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 465,668 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: 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
Vijayapura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vijayapura 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 Vijayapura; 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, Vijayapura covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 87%.
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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Vijayapura in 2025 — about 1 in 3,226.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1233 Polokwane South Africa451,786
- 1234 Haripur Pakistan451,578
- 1235 Ilesa Nigeria450,464
- 1236 Basti450,449
- 1237 Vijayapura450,192
- 1238 Heyuan China449,860
- 1239 Penza Russia449,851
- 1240 Ramadi Iraq449,183
- 1241 Mannheim Germany448,203
In India, 2025
- 1209 Nagercoil460,826
- 1218 Saharsa456,879
- 1221 Raiganj456,239
- 1236 Basti450,449
- 1237 Vijayapura450,192
- 1242 Canning447,522
- 1246 Parbhani446,508
- 1255 Thanjavur443,736
- 1258 Nizamabad442,690
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 Vijayapura 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 Vijayapura 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 →
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