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Waidhan, 
India
408,489 people lived in Waidhan in 2025. It is the 1385th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 220th 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 Waidhan grew
For every 10 people in Waidhan in 1975, there were 21.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 492,727 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Waidhan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Waidhan 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 Waidhan; 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, Waidhan covered 87 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Waidhan in 2025 — about 1 in 3,571.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1381 Uíge Angola408,927
- 1382 Makurdi Nigeria408,753
- 1383 Kendari Indonesia408,731
- 1384 Huế Vietnam408,692
- 1385 Waidhan408,489
- 1386 Zhaodong China407,507
- 1387 Hat Yai Thailand407,059
- 1388 Jalna406,973
- 1389 Dhamar Yemen406,929
In India, 2025
- 1341 Basirhat419,703
- 1347 Chandrapur416,903
- 1362 Hathras413,122
- 1371 Bharuch411,095
- 1385 Waidhan408,489
- 1388 Jalna406,973
- 1390 Bhind406,712
- 1393 Kumbakonam405,885
- 1403 Tumakuru403,109
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 Waidhan 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 Waidhan 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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