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Visakhapatnam, 
India
1,641,957 people lived in Visakhapatnam in 2025. It is the 295th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 44th 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 Visakhapatnam grew
Where Visakhapatnam had 10 people in 1975, it had 29.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.7 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Visakhapatnam through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Visakhapatnam in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Visakhapatnam is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Visakhapatnam covered 208 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 42 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 3 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 Visakhapatnam, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Visakhapatnam's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 291 Nantong China1,684,417
- 292 Sao Goncalo Brazil1,679,246
- 293 Mosul Iraq1,665,214
- 294 Pointe-Noire Republic of the Congo1,662,537
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 296 Boston United States1,639,797
- 297 Ahwaz Iran1,639,321
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 299 Campinas Brazil1,631,432
In India, 2025
- 264 Bibhutpur1,904,411
- 274 Ranchi1,819,944
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot1,581,235
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 Visakhapatnam 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 Visakhapatnam 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