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Viluppuram, 
India
375,616 people lived in Viluppuram in 2025. It is the 1514th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 244th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Viluppuram 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 Viluppuram grew
Where Viluppuram had 10 people in 1975, it had 25 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 401,370 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Viluppuram through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Viluppuram 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 Viluppuram; 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, Viluppuram covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.1 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 7.1 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Viluppuram in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1510 Timika Indonesia375,910
- 1511 Xinghua China375,876
- 1512 Lalpur Bangladesh375,833
- 1513 Posadas Argentina375,741
- 1514 Viluppuram375,616
- 1515 Tawau Malaysia375,573
- 1516 Mariupol Ukraine375,504
- 1517 Liège Belgium375,138
- 1518 İskenderun Türkiye375,056
In India, 2025
- 1485 Rewa383,019
- 1486 Badaun382,686
- 1503 Kralpora377,602
- 1509 Tirunelveli376,005
- 1514 Viluppuram375,616
- 1523 Debandi374,423
- 1528 Junagadh373,265
- 1530 Khagaria372,707
- 1541 Dewas370,472
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 Viluppuram 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 Viluppuram 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