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Vijayawada, 
India
1,351,098 people lived in Vijayawada in 2025. It is the 374th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 58th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Vijayawada 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 Vijayawada grew
Count 10 people in Vijayawada in 1975 and the same count gives 19.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Vijayawada through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Vijayawada 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 Vijayawada; 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, Vijayawada covered 121 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 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 2.8 times its size, and its people have grown by 91%.
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 Vijayawada, which is 1.4 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Vijayawada. 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
- 370 Fort Lauderdale United States1,368,027
- 371 León Mexico1,367,521
- 372 Xining China1,360,245
- 373 Fez Morocco1,359,989
- 374 Vijayawada1,351,098
- 375 Huaiyin District China1,349,827
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 377 Cochabamba Bolivia1,346,672
- 378 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan1,343,048
In India, 2025
- 342 Moradabad1,484,611
- 345 Raipur1,478,688
- 365 Durg1,393,235
- 369 Thrissur1,371,675
- 374 Vijayawada1,351,098
- 376 Tiruchirappalli1,349,040
- 379 Mysuru1,342,126
- 380 Salem1,337,000
- 392 Guwahati1,314,019
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 Vijayawada 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 Vijayawada 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